Jason writes in – Sonny Rolle is a Rhode Island artist who works with wire – among other materials, he’s also an illustrator. These images are all made from strands of flexible, coated wire. The detail is amazing, considering the medium. Rag & Bone Blog: Sonny Rolle – Link & gallery.
Nick made a temperature-based computer fan controller that use a reverse-biased diode for temperature sensing – From a design standpoint, the only complaint I have about my Shuttle small form factor desktop is the extremely fragile on-board fan controllers. All three have died over the past two years after being used to regulate the single […]
Matt Donahoe, Jeff DeCew, and Olek Lorenc are students at Olin College trying to build a computer entirely out of K’NEX parts for their Computer Architecture class… The K’NEX calculator stands over 10 feet tall, and can perform 4 bit addition and subtraction operations in about 30 seconds. The slowest part of the operation is […]
The world’s oldest car is up for sale, low miles, only two owners… steam powered – A steam-powered car, billed as the oldest car in the world that still runs, will be sold in a Pebble Beach, Calif., auction in August. The car was built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler […]
The CDC made a series of cards you can collect, trade and share… of diseases. They were created to get middle school kids interested in science and health. Apparently they’re out of stock, but you can go to the site and download the files to print out. Here’s some West Nile. More: Sick Idea: CDC […]
We’ll be doing a Maker Saturday program, starting at 1pm at the Exploratorium, beginning this Saturday, June 30 for six weeks ending, August 4. You can come and watch the live half-hour program in person or watch the webcast, which will be available on the Exploratorium’s website. Each Saturday, Dale Dougherty of Make and Craft […]
Karen sent in the latest (and new) GadgetFreakUK – Special effects designer Clive Mitchell’s electric match controller is intended for producing small-scale special effects like a confetti rainstorm. An electric match is a common device for firing pyrotechnics on stage – it works by passing a current through a thin nichrome wire, which in turn […]
