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MAKE Flickr photo pool member Riccardomuccio posted up another great Kirlian photo, this one is a coin – “Corona around a coin exposed to high voltage. The line below is the wire connecting it to ground. This is known as a Kirlian photo. More like this in my Plasma Set“ – Link. Previous: Leaf corona […]
Here are a few dandies – what’s new, from the old – over at Modern Mechanix… Sea sickness the “real terror of the sea” may have been solved in 1933 with this auto-leveling bed. Stylish homemade radiation suit for bicycling.
James Clar’s Flexigrid – ” Bendable LED display – Created for the Milan Triennial 2005 with New York architecture company Hariri+Hariri. Embedded into a suit, this interactive display would allow for users to talk to the clothing, having it react in different ways depending on how you talked to it. This would give the clothing […]
Wow, this pedal and electric assisted human power vehicle seats 4 and looks like a lot of fun – [via] Link.
Here’s some art, best viewed from above… Raijin (God of Thunder) made from different varieties of rice [via] – Link. Here’s a 32-acre “Star Trek” maze on a farm in northern England. Last but not least, “rake art” – drawings made with rakes and photographed with a kite (like our previous weekend project) [via] – […]
Hey remember that homemade spy sub? Well, here’s how to build one – “Inspired by 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jason built this underwater Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) so he, himself, could explore the depths of his bath tub, swimming pool and beyond. Employing mostly off-the-shelf parts, the ROV is controlled via Visual Basic commands […]
James Duncan Davidson who take a lot of the MAKE related photos at events made a really cool time lapse video while at OSCON, he writes – “At this year’s Open Source Convention, I made a time lapse movie of the exhibit hall area. This was made from a perch in the staff office which […]
