Month: May 2011

Lego Master Chief Armor

Lego Master Chief Armor

The Brothers Brick Lego website has a fascinating post by Ben Caulkins, who spent 6 months building Master Chief armor completely out of Lego. (I)t was after I saw some really amazing LEGO creations at my first LEGO convention, Brickworld, that I really seriously started thinking about it. At first it was just a fantasy, […]

 USB Stick PC

$25 USB Stick PC

Frustrated with a curriculum change away from traditional CS courses in public schools, game developer David Braben built an ultra-low cost single board computer on a USB stick to facilitate a return to programming and learning how computers actually work.

Impressive Tuner Coil

Impressive Tuner Coil

Craig Smith of Firefly Workshop (South Milwaukee, WI) With my crystal radio projects, I recently made a dual coil variometer tuner. Connected to a diode, crystal earphone, antenna & ground wires (no batteries) I tuned in 1540 KXCL Waterloo Iowa from 270 miles away here in Milwaukee. The coils were wound on a segment of […]