Steel Grocery Bag
A new pattern for folding bags! From Proceedings of the Royal Society A:
Month: April 2011
Japanese Gravity Marimba Plays Bach In An Ancient Forest
This remarkably beautiful video, uploaded to YouTube one day before the T?hoku earthquake and tsunami, turns out to be an ad for Sharp’s SH-08C handset. It is, nonetheless, entirely worth watching: in a tranquil forest, a single wooden ball rolls down a stepped wooden ramp, continuously, for two minutes. At each step, it falls and strikes a wooden bar tuned to play a single note of the 10th movement of Bach’s Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, commonly known by its English title, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Wait till you see how they handle the sustained notes. [Thanks, Rachel!]
Soldering is Easy Comic Book
Mitch Alman, Jeff “Mightyohm” Keyzer, and Andie Nordgren, just released their “Soldering is Easy” comic book. It’s part of a book they are working on that will be published later this year. You can download the comic in PDF format from the Mighty Ohm website. The comic (and lots more cool stuff!) will be included […]
In the Maker Shed: EX-150 Electronic Experiment kit
The Gakken EX System was a series of educational electronics kits that were produced in the late 1970s. The kits uses “denshi blocks” (also known as electronic blocks) to allow electronics experiments to be performed easily and safely. More than 25 years after its original release, one of the main kits from the series was […]
How-To: Felty Easter Gift Box
These felty Easter gift boxes from Diane of Crafty Pod are so bright and cheery, you’ll want to leave them out on your countertop or windowsill. See how to make your own over on Crafty Pod. Also be sure to catch Diane’s regular column, Crafting Your Online Presence, here on Craft and come out to […]
Better Bitters Filter
I make my own cocktail bitters, which involves steeping lots of herbs, roots, rinds, and more in high-proof alcohol for a few weeks, and then straining the mixture. The filtration of loads of teeny, tiny particles has always been a slow part of the process (using gravity and cheesecloth, for example). Until now. I grabbed my AeroPress coffee maker and started using it as the high-pressure filtration piston that it really is.
Dr. Action’s Distraction Contraption
Sam built a small arcade machine. He has a great photoset showing the build process. Appears like he used Lego parts here and there, nice!