Science

DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!

First person model helicopter piloting…

First person model helicopter piloting…

S EyetopglassesheliThere are a lot of homemade versions of this lately, but here’s a really cool way to pilot your RC chopper – “HeliHobby’s True Vision is a state of the art device which includes a high quality sub-micro camera, sub-micro transmitter ( 2.4GHZ ), base receiver and coupled with EyeTops’s high resolution LCD Eyewear to give you the only True Vision when flying any size R/C Helicopter. True Vision is the only system which will allow you to fly your R/C Machine in first person view as well as third person virew simultaneously.” [via] Link.

The Atari-Xbox 3600…

The Atari-Xbox 3600…

Xbox AtariSeth’s Atari meets Xbox 360 mod on Informit.com “The Xbox 360 represents a significant step forward in gaming and home media integration. The Atari 2600 was major step in gaming and home entertainment, so it seems appropriate that Seth Fogie modded his Xbox 360 to fit inside a 2600 case to create the Atari-Xbox 3600. This article shows you how he did it.” [via] Link.

Whisky bottle PC

Whisky bottle PC

WhiskypcJanos’s awesome case mod! “I already had a powerful computer setup so I wanted something more quiet, small and low power consumptioning to function as a basic home server. I love to tinker with hardware etc. so I wanted to make something quite unique for a case. I have seen many nice and creative cases before but none of them were made out of a bottle. In November I bought an industrial 3.5″ SBC board (with Socket370). For the project I selected a 1.5 litre Ballantine’s bottle for case. That was the proper size and shape for the task at hand.” [via] Link.

Posting photos of a 1,306 km (812 mile) car trip…

Posting photos of a 1,306 km (812 mile) car trip…

95520985 C510B4134C SToday is the drive from San Francisco from Seattle, as this happens I’ll upload photos every hour or so via a Kodak Wifi camera, an EVDO connection and a my own little wifi network. If you happen to need wireless and will be on I-5 for the next 13 hours, let me know – the network will be up and running the whole time :-] Here is the Flickr photo set if you want to tune in…Link. I would geo tag them, but you can’t use them with google maps/earth for now… I’m sure any day now Flickr is going to do geotagging with Yahoo maps since they have the super talented Dan from Geobloggers

How Golf Clubs Are Made

How Golf Clubs Are Made

PingHere is this week’s “Cool stuff being made!” – “Karsten Manufacturing Corporation began in the 1950’s garage of Karsten Solheim, when he set out to build his own club to improve his golf game. What started with a custom line of putters has grown into a full line of drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons and putters. Today, Karsten Manufacturing is utilizing the latest alloys, aerodynamic technology and experiences of professional tour golfers to continually improve upon their design and make some of the best selling equipment in the world of golf.” Link.