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Rick Pannen designed the case for his iPhone-mountable Geiger counter in FreeCAD, milled it out of a solid block of polyoxymethylene (aka “acetal”), and loaded it with a custom-milled PCB and a surplus SI-29BG Russian Geiger-Müller tube from eBay. The circuit itself was designed by BroHogan of DIYGeigerCounter, and it interfaces with the phone through […]
Dustin Cohen is a Brooklyn-based documentary film maker collecting rich, textural vignettes of local burough artisans passionate about their craft. In his latest Made in Brooklyn short, The Watchmaker, Cohen follows David Sokosh, a former gallery owner turned horologist.
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With about 5,000 3.5″ Amiga floppy disks stored in six wooden crates, Dwellers wanted to free up that physical space, but didn’t want to lose his archive of data. The process of archiving so many disks would be incredibly time consuming and monotonous, so he built the Floppy Autoader.
Manchester-based design and advertising firm LOVE Labs created a real-time collaborative digital-drawing game, called Doodlr.
Stevie Bathiche, director of Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, introduces this video from GeekWire by explaining that “it looks like we just took an LCD and took the backlight off, but that’s actually not true. There’s actually been a lot of work that Samsung has done to improve the transmission quality of this display.” Be that as it may…
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
