Year: 2009

Kickball planter

Kickball planter

Randy Sarafan at Instructables writes: Not too long ago, the beloved Instructables kickball was popped by an overzealous dog. As we are not prone to ever throw anything away (ever), it just lamely drifted around the office as people slowly kicked it about in dissatisfaction from spot to spot. This continued for a while until […]

Cymatics image gallery

Cymatics image gallery

Cymatics.org offers a nice gallery of images and video from their experiments with vibrating fluids. Their test setup using a vacuum-formed speaker inlay + custom lighting rig produces some excellent eye candy. Pics + discussion of their process can be found on the site. More: Seeing sound waves From the pages of MAKE: Chladni Plate  […]

Infrared baseball cap

Are you constantly hounded by the paparazzi when your bodyguard detail takes PTO? Well, you can rest easy the next time you want to duck out for a pint of Häagen-Dazs at 3AM. Follow this excellent step-by-step instructional video by Minimak and you, too, can have a blindingly awesome infrared LED sombrero.

Fishing net calls when it’s full

Fishing net calls when it’s full

From AfriGadget: Pascal Katana, a Fourth Year student at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, developed an electronic device that ‘automates’ fishing. The trap employs amplification of the sound made by fish while feeding. The acoustic signals are radiated and attract other fish who head toward the direction […]