mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | youtube | blip | itunes | pdf This week, Bre Pettis teams up with Mitch Altman and George Shammas to make a little 3x3x3 cube made of little LED lights that you can program with any kind of animation you like! – Subscribe Link Update: in the podcast I […]
Photo Credit: Fukami Chaos Computer Club Cologne (C4) was the hacker on a plane group’s second home while in West Germany. They’re on their 3.5th location and they’ve got a great set up with a kitchen, shower, and dedicated rooms for the storage of club mate, smoking, servers, and presentations. Jens, Lars, and Thorsten put […]
This is one of those projects that fell together perfectly. Recently I traveled around Europe with some friends on a tour of hacker spaces and one of the hacker spaces that we visited was Das Labor (http://das-labor.org). Two of the hackers there, Peter and Martin, have been making these amazing LED cubes that were 5x5x5 […]
A Double Pendulum, a.k.a. a Chaotic Pendulum, is a simple, jointed pendulum used to study dynamic systems/chaos theory. It’s also just a really cool widget that’s fun to watch. Not to be confused, BTW, with Steve Jackson’s (of Steve Jackson Games fame) Chaos Machine, which is an entirely different mechanical animal. The Chaos Machine (Double […]
ToolNut put together a nice guide for using electrolysis to clean up rusty tools: This is a relatively simple, safe and cheap way to remove light or heavy rust from any ferrous object. I used this process to restore an old wood plane that I bought for $1 (it looked totally un-usable because of the […]
Hmmm. Beer and garage-built jet engines. Is it just me or does this look like an accident waiting to happen? That is one angry motor. BTW: There are dozens of similar engines on YouTube. Search on “homemade jet engines.” Few of them look quite this… dramatic. Beer+old turbo=home made jet engine – [via] Link Related: […]
Hacker Zen shows you how to make your own video game pixel art T-shirt! [ via ] Link.
