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Fractal Snowflake Cupcakes

The fine folks over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories are really good at making math yummy. Cupcakes are all the rage these days, and I just love snowflakes, no matter what the season. EMS Labs shows us how to bring the Koch snowflake into the kitchen. Now that’s a tasty equation! (Thanks, Brookelynn!)

Bag ‘o Beans Easter Project

Bag ‘o Beans Easter Project

These brightly colored jelly bean bags from the purl bee just beg to be tossed about and played with. I love the story behind their inspiration: All of the women in my family are crazy about jelly beans. In fact, our husbands have been known to say “step away from the jelly beans, honey” on […]

Making the 2009 Shmooball Cannon

Making the 2009 Shmooball Cannon

Larry Pesce wrote in to let us know that he’s posted his build notes for this year’s Shmooball Cannon: Shmoocon (hosted by the fine folks at the Shmoo group, an independent security “think tank”) is a small hacker/security conference in Washington, DC, typically some time during the month of February. … They provide a foam […]

RFID sniffer workshop in Amsterdam

RFID sniffer workshop in Amsterdam

This workshop looks like it will be a really interesting combination of electronics and activism, soldering and information privacy. Build your own rfid sniffer from Marc Boon’s kit. If you’re in or around Amsterdam, I hope you can attend one of the two additional workshops they’ve scheduled since the first one has filled up, April […]