Bicycle made from a bed
From Popular Science 1938 – a fantastic bicycle made from a bed frame! Link.
Month: March 2007
April fool’s pranks
Sunday is April 1st, but here are some good pranks to get you started. Here’s one of my favorites… “Beeper bomb” sounds prank device – but of course you don’t need to buy one, you can build one yourself, just in time for this weekend! DIY “Brain Assailant” – Link. More: April Fool’s pranks for […]
Game of Life kit (instructions)
Here’s another one of our kits, now documented on Instructables. The Game of Life Boards are a scalable platform for cellular automata visualizations. Each board contains 16 LEDs in a 4×4 grid, a microcontroller, and a communications and power distribution network. With the available firmware, they execute Conway’s Game of Life. Boards can act alone, […]
Face-mounted lucid dreaming mask
Nate True makes these lucid dreaming kits (or you can just make your own) – he sent me out one and I’ll strap it to my head to see what happens. The things I do for our fringe themed issue and posts this month… cre.ations.net – Creation: Face-mounted Lucid Dreaming Mask – Link.
Upside-Down-Ternet: Having Fun With Wireless Interlopers
I’m a big fan of open wireless access points. As long as my neighbors are respectful, I’ve got more downstream bandwidth than I really need most of the time. That said, I can understand the frustration with having a persistant freeloader, so I can really appreciate this hack which allows you to send a “knock […]
HOW TO – Make a beer tin barometer
Andy shows you how to make a ake a beer tin barometer – …There are simpler designs for barometers (though not much simpler it must be said). But this I think is effective, although quite vulnerable to temperature fluctuations, but if you keep it indoors it should be okay. Atmospheric pressure exerts a force on […]
Play with your food: Rework your toast
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has perhaps the best overview of high end toasting – All evidence suggests that we are now living in a modern renaissance of the toasting arts– what history will soon recognize as the era when toasting went digital and the human race finally broke free from its ancient bonds of monochrome […]