Seed Magazine posted an interesting photo series documenting scientific laboratories after dark. Describing the top photo above – Much of the fundamental knowledge that underpins our search for extraterrestrial life and supports our understanding of our solar system’s history and evolution emerges from this small room in Theodor Kostiuk’s laboratory. On the rightmost table, infrared […]
The Delft University of Technology has shrunk their robotic ornithopter design down to a very impressive 10cm – that’s almost 1/3 the size of their previous design. Specs for the Delfly Micro – Size: 10 cm, from wingtip to wingtip Weight: 3.07 gram; Battery: 1 gram Camera and transmitter: 0.4 gram; Engine: 0.45 gram; Receiver: […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool SanFran maker DocPop put his dollar to work as decoration – Several of the tables at this year’s Zinefest were offering “make your own buttons†services. The basic idea was that for one dollar, you could draw a little image and have it made into a little 1″ button. […]
Gregor writes – A group I’m in, the Columbus Society of Communication Professionals (CSCArts.org), just held a grown-up Pinewood Derby fundraiser for the American Red Cross. It’s like the thing the Cub Scouts do every year, ‘cept these cars are built by professional print, web, and environmental designers. And they’re *really* cool. ChiaCar, Typemobile, SushiCruiser […]
The NTFS file system has support for additional data, called Alternate Data Streams (ADS), to be attached to any file. Normally this is used by the operating system and file explorer to bind extra data to a file, such as the file’s access control information, searchable file meta-data like keywords, comments and revision history, and […]
The NTFS file system has support for additional data, called Alternate Data Streams (ADS), to be attached to any file. Normally this is used by the operating system and file explorer to bind extra data to a file, such as the file’s access control information, searchable file meta-data like keywords, comments and revision history, and […]
My friend Mikest just made a very fun project, a digital compass in a hat… Hat Development Platform, v1…External hatband has ultra bright RGB 1W LED mounted in center, regulated DC-DC boost convertor power supply, Adafruit Industries boarduino, and a rather generous prototyping area. The possibilities are nearly endless. LED changes color based on compass […]
