MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Check out the coolest submissions to the MAKE Flickr pool from last week!
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
In the Maker Shed: Pixel Qi Display
The Pixel Qi screen from the Maker Shed is a revolutionary plug-and-play LCD display technology for your netbook. This one-of-a-kind 10.1-inch display offers two modes, an easy-to-read multimedia color mode, or a crisp low power e-reader mode.
For Sale: Full-Scale Saturn V F-1 Engine Model
Nineteen feet tall. Twelve feet in diameter. “The F-1 is still the most powerful single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever put into service. Manufactured by Rocketdyne, five F-1 engines were used in the first stage of each Saturn V rocket, each generating 1.5 million pounds-force of thrustโmore than all three Space Shuttle main engines combined.”
Tool Review: Robert Larson 800-2875 Center Finder
If you’ve ever struggled to locate the center of a circular plate or a piece of round stock using a ruler or a square, you know it can be a tricky proposition. My usual ham-fisted method involves marking the midpoint of several diameters and kind of visually averaging all those sloppy centers to get roughly in the middle of the thing. If I need more accuracy, I try to sandwich the circle between two framing squares and then draw lines between opposing corners–lines which, at least in theory, should bisect each corner at 45 degrees and intersect in the middle of the circumscribed circle. In theory.
QR Code Talking Resume
This interactive resume by Victor Petit encourages the reader to explore further by incorporating a QR code and iPhone 4 in a unique and interesting way.
Blendophone Project Build Part 1
What’s a Blendophone? It’s a “musical” instrument made from eight blenders controlled by an iPhone and an Arduino. My friend Usman Muzaffar is writing an iPhone app to control the beat sequencing and solo input, while I’m building the hardware and an Arduino sketch to switch the blenders on and off.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool this week include a pinhole camera built from an eggshell, a collection of beautiful paper models of stellated polyhedra, a giant plush amoeba, a homemade spectroscope, and more!
