Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World – NYTimes.com: In the menagerie of Craig Venter’s imagination, tiny bugs will save the world. They will be custom bugs, designer bugs — bugs that only Venter can create. He will mix them up in his private laboratory from bits and pieces of DNA, and then he will […]
The other night, having dinner with my parents, we started talking about Hawaiian food — specifically loco moco. Then someone wondered aloud about homemade Spam, and so I had to find it on the internet. Lo and behold, Morgan of Morgans Menu has a post up about her successful attempt to make the canned meat […]
Vulpestruments just announced the completion of the Droneitar, a two-stringed instrument that has drone strings powered by a string attached to an electric motor. In fact, the coils from another electric motor are used as a pickup for the device. Rich Stephenson demonstrates the sonic possibilities of the Droneitar in the video.
This brilliant how-to from Phil Hansen of Phil in the Whaaat? is an insanely simple way to turn a banana in to a piece of art. Of course, it’s a piece of art that will rot before your eyes, but that’s kind of the cool part, right? Do yourself a favor and check out Phil’s […]
Alan Chatham of Unojoy wrote an Instructable on using pencil drawings as capacitive sensors: Did you know? You can make pencil drawings reactive to touch for use with your projects! It’s really easy, and gives you a lot of flexibility in making interfaces for whatever microcontroller project you’re making. Making a capacitive touch sensor from […]
The team behind StinkybombSoap have added a familiar shape to their popular line of Ohio state soaps – the good ol’ United States. Learn more about these two Maker Faire vets over on Facebook.
The WW2 US Medical Research Centre has an extensive catalog of images and descriptions of World War II medical kits, vehicles, clothing, veterinary equipment, bags, field manuals, and more. There are also historical photos from the war sprinkled throughout.
