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Created at Romania’s Sapientia University. The YouTube channel is AlgoRythmics. Although some naysayers have expressed doubt about the choreographic expression of a quicksort, per the AlgoRythmics Facebook page, videos of both quick- and merge-sort dances will be uploaded in a few days. Stay tuned! [Thanks, Stefan!]
Jeremy Cook advances the potato cannon arms race from muzzle- to breech-loading eras with this .602 caliber pneumatic spud gun prototype that fires from a high-pressure gas reservoir instead of via the familiar fuel-ignition system.
This Kinect controlled AR Drone mashup from the folks at Ziekel Engineering looks like a load of fun.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Viscous Fingering from nervous system.
DIY Vacuum Pickup fromdrug123.
I don’t ? spurious oscillations fromRob Cruickshank.
IMG_0847 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Hirschmann Connector fromanachrocomputer.
Nintendo MAX Synth fromMichaelRucci.
P1100524 fromTimothy J Silverman.
For iOS device owners that mess around with electronics, Oscium recently announced the release of the iMSO-104 mixed signal oscilloscope for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The hardware, which connects via the dock connector, doesn’t ship until the end of April, but you can download the iMSO app from the App Store now and […]
Ytai from Tel Aviv wrote in with a cool new board he developed: I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new product I’ve been working on for the past months! IOIO (pronounced: yo-yo) is a product which lets you connect electronic circuits to an Android device and control them from an Android application. […]
After a quick search of the posts I’ve written for MAKE, it’s clear that I overuse the word “awesome.” It’s not news to me, but I had no idea how bad my problem was. In fact, I think you could say that I abuse the word. In order to cut down on my usage of […]
