Kristy from Craftastica made this fabulous globe cake for her 3 year old daughter’s birthday. The cake is hummingbird cake, which I have never heard of but is apparently pineapple, banana and pecan. The icing is, my favorite, cream cheese icing with some fondant for structural and sculptural support. Thanks Wendi.
Mark just wasn’t satisfied with 3D glasses on his SGI machine, so he adapted them to work with any video card with a VESA-compliant stereo port – Now in all, it’s not too complicated what I do here. The SGIs have around 10-12 volts on the stereo port, while (same connector, same pin-out) the VESA […]
This pleasant musical interlude incorporates some familiar hardware (Arduino microcontroller board + servo motors) – but the software used to author the demonstration is likely new to many. The RAD, or Ruby Arduino Development, project is offering a new approach to writing Arduino code based on the easy-to-read, open source Ruby programming language. Check out […]
The folks @ MIT are warming up to the idea of parabolic solar collectors, recently demonstrating this 12-foot dish of massive heating power – — the completed mirror focuses enough solar energy at its focal point to melt solid steel. The energy of typical sunlight is concentrated by a factor of 1,000. This was showcased […]
Our pal John Edgar Park has posted photos of his building of the new ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs.
Just because it’s hot doesn’t mean the kids have to stay indoors in the A/C. There are a number of worthwhile summer projects, but the KidWash looks like it has a particularly high fun/effort ratio. A trip to the hardware store for some PVC and mister jets and you can give the Wii a run […]
Wow, this is a “real” Simpsons house via Merlin. The photographer brantastic writes – sara and i passed this house in whycocomagh on our way to cape breton island, and were both like, “what the h3ll? STOP THE CAR.” and we turned around and took pictures in some family’s front yard. when the lady who […]
