MAKE subscriber Michael Beck is looking to start up a maker/hacker group in the Salt Lake City, Utah area – I am interested in gathering a group of makers to share and inspire the Make spirit here in Salt Lake City. Plans to start are to meet regularly and if things go good create a […]
In 1927 Dr. Thomas Parnell at the University of Queensland heated a sample of petroleum pitch, also called bitumen, and poured it into a glass funnel, with a sealed neck, set in a ring stand. Three years later, in 1930, he broke the neck off the funnel and set it aside. It took eight years for the first drop of pitch to fall. The experiment has been running continuously ever since, and has produced a total of eight drops to date. The man shown in the photograph is Dr. John Mainstone, who is the experiment’s current custodian.
Wondering what to do with that snake farm under your desk? Check out this rain gutter solution. Nice and neat. Via Kat on Twitter.
Sew your own laptop bag with this great tutorial by Made by Petchy. I love the strip of car fabric on the front and the yellow zig zag stitching.
A homemade CNC machine build using mostly off the shelve parts.The first one aka “The beast” had a lot of precision issues due to play in most parts which in turn was caused by mostly bad cutting. Also one of the biggest problems was that when I have build it I did not think to allow later adjustments to be done. So this time almost every part of it allows for some adjustments. It is also easier to build due to the different design.
Using a custom RjDj patch to control an Arduino. Made possible via the “netsend” and “netreceive” objects in PD, which are also usable in RjDj. The interface with the Arduino is made through the Firmata firmware in combination with the PDuino library.
Steam Boat Willy has an amazingly detailed account of the technical details on this human powered hovercraft. Via MITers
