We recently visited Takeshi Murakami’s show at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s Geffen Contemporary wing. The show was really impressive showcasing over 90 pieces spanning the artist’s career, in various media from film and animation to large metal and ceramic sculptures. The show features enormous pieces such as the “Oval Buddha” (2007) (pictured) […]
If you find yourself in an unheated cabin in the woods this winter or your house has really bad central heating, it might be time to slap on these “USB Heating Gloves”. In 5 minutes your hands will heat up to 52 degrees Celsius (125 Fahrenheit), which is probably too hot unless you don’t mind […]
MAKE and a whole lot of other MAKE-pals will be at the 24C3. We’ll see you there! – The 24th Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). It takes place at the bcc Berliner Congress Center in Berlin, Germany. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on […]
Ian writes – In making an electronic circuit exhibiting chaos, one is essentially making an analog computer for the differential equations describing the system. This means that circuits that can differentiate a voltage are needed. In practice, it is convenient to actually do this with electronic integrators, the idea being that the input of an […]
Boarduino is a “breadboardable” Arduino clone created by Ladyada. It has a much smaller form factor and it’s designed to plug right into a solderless breadboard, making your circuit prototyping efforts a breeze. How cool is that? You use it just like a normal Arduino. You can slap the standard Arduino bootloader on it and […]
Jenny Hart and the gang at Sublime Stitching have a great after Christmas sale going on. Everything in the store online is 10% off now through December 28th. Stock up on your favorite embroidery patterns and supplies! Link.
I wanted a security camera at the front door of my house with two criteria: the camera needed to be wireless and it needed to be accessible for viewing from my computer. Check out Jake’s solar security cam howto. – Link
