The physics of stone skipping
What makes a stone bounce repeatedly when thrown across the surface of a lake, and how many bounces can it perform? – this article on PhysicsWeb tells you why and how stones skip on water. [via] Link.
Month: February 2006
HOW TO – Make a quick and easy project case
Blackrazor has a new Instructable on making a project case, he writes – “This project shows how to build a simple project case out of hardware store materials in about an afternoon. It is particularly suitable for projects that need user controls or displays. For this example, I built a case for the amazing “Wacky […]
Hacking The “Knows Your Name Elmo”
The “Knows Your Name Elmo” has games, speaks phrases and tells stories. You can program in your kid’s birthday, name, favorite colors, etc..all via USB. So as you may guessed by now…someone has started to figure out how to hack him. Link.
WiFi Surveying Roomba
There really isn’t any information on this project, but it looks like another excellent Roomba robot mod – this one is WiFi and web cam enabled. Link.
Add your own 3D data to Google Earth
Take 3D drawings and data (WoW, Second Life, etc..) and plop them inside Google Earth – “Maya2GoogleEarth is an open-source, cross-platform tool developed at Eyebeam for exporting 3D models from Maya into Google Earth. Once installed, it allows you to export 3D models from within your scene as a single Google Earth Placemark (KML) file. […]
HOW TO – Build a 1,024,000 mcd portable light
Here’s how to build a very bright, very low power portable light for less than $100, the Maker uses this on his bike. Link.
Maximus Arcade emulation…
I spotted this awesome arcade emulator set up from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Ben Sinclair and wanted to find out what software was running all the emulators – Ben writes “I like Maximus Arcade because the UI is great and there is very little configuration. You just tell it what emulators to use and […]