Swiss Scientists Design a Turbine to Fit in Human Arteries @ IEEE Spectrum via jwz. Coaches admire athletes for showing a lot of heart, and poets praise the organ’s passions, but engineers see the human cardiovascular system otherwise. The heart is a pump in a prime location, brimming with energy for the taking, says mechanical […]
Our coverage of element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge continues with a profile of BuildBrighton and their fabulous Phonicubes project.
Phonicubes is a super nerdy way of teaching kids to read using the Phonics system. It uses an Arduino Duemilanove, a protoshield, a custom wave shield, and an ID-2 RFID module for a total cost of £81, well under the team’s US$900 budget.
Anything “taco truck” grabs my attention these days. We have a great taco truck here in Detroit, Jacques’ Tacos, that I try to stop by on Saturday afternoons. Just to the south of me in Columbus, Rachel Tayse, of Hounds in the Kitchen, recreated a recipe for one of her favorite taco truck creations from […]
“Sous-vide” is fashionable French for a method of cooking that involves longer cooking times at lower temperatures and reduced atmospheric pressures. It means, literally, “under vacuum.” Commonly, food is sealed in plastic vacuum bags and cooked at temperatures well below the boiling point of water for dozens of hours, although the particular parameters vary widely with the food to be cooked. The point, really, is that the equipment involved is capable of finer automated control of those parameters than your conventional range, oven, and/or microwave, and the quality and flavor of the natural ingredients can be vastly improved—without sacrificing safety—by using it.
Searching for a way to enlarge some 8″x10″ prints without going digital, photographer (and close friend) Darren Samuelson decided to forego using an enlarger and instead built a gigantic ultra-large format camera capable of taking pictures on 14″x36″ X-Ray film. Taking over six months to complete, when fully extended the enormous hand-made bellows camera is […]
Creating faux glass eyeballs (that seem to follow you as you move) is very simple using actual eye images and glass bubble gems. These eyes can then be incorporated into a fabulous steampunk pendant that you… er… can’t look away from.
Brian Chan‘s origami pieces depict insects, plant life and figures, but this intricate Iron Man has me gobsmacked. If you visit the link, you can print a folding diagram and try it out for yourself. (Via Toxel.com)
