design*sponge had some type of DIY contest and the results are in. The categories included furniture, product jewelry, graphic/paper and other. You can check out the winner page, as well as a bunch of photos on their Flickr site. I like the vinyl bowls the best, I’ll need to make some of these.
Ezra Daly doesn’t buy instruments, he makes them out of motorcycle parts. UCBerkley news has a great story about Daly’s desire to create a slap bass and eventually engineering a Moto Guzzi gasoline tank to jam on. His site WreckandRoll.com has more information and some great photos. I want to learn how to play bass just so I would have a reason to buy this one, it even has headlights that flash to the beat.
Paper shredders are a necessity these days but they are a pain to use. The smallest can only handle one sheet of paper at a time, which makes shredding a pretty tedious task. The largest cost thousands of dollars and take up a lot of room. Short of an incinerator, is there a better way to shred paper?
We added our coordinates in the head section of Makezine.com so GeoUrl could locate us. You might have noticed the GeoURL button on the page. If you’d like to the same, enter your address here.
Our addy gave us the following.
meta name=”ICBM” content=”38.411908, -122.842232″
meta name=”DC.title” content=”Make Magazine”
Once you add the tags, ping GeoURL here.
Some other sites near Make! Here’s a satellite view of where we’re at using NASA’s Whirlwind, a massive amazing free download.
Finding the technology of the future from the forgotten ideas of the past.
Bunnie Huang prototypes two kinetic glowsticks: instead of creating a single arc of light, glowsticking dancers can now create their own two-dimensional fantasias.
I am testing out a GHL-100XX 160mW+ green laser from LaserGlow.com. Laser power is measured in milliwatts, your standard red laser pointer is usually less than 5mW. This one is not only 30 times more powerful, our eyes are more sensitive to green light, so it appears even brighter. I really like using lasers for star pointing- Mark was telling me was helping his daughter with an astronomy project and needed to point out which stars in the sky were actually planets- this is where these lasers literally shine. Other uses- alignment (in day light) and doing really cool time lapse photos. With a laser like this one there are also some fun experiments- here’s a photo of the laser “burning” a hole through a red plastic cup. I’ll have some other photos soon, along with some projects. It goes without saying but I feel compelled to post this, never point a laser at people, cars, planes, robots, etc…
