Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a fantastic Nixie tube take-apart article and photo set — Don’t you just love nixie tubes? They glow with a lovely neon color and have gorgeous stylized numbers– something you can’t get with a dot matrix– or even sixteen-segment LED or LCD display. Recently, we disassembled a well-loved tube when […]
Here’s a creepy cool contraption gallery called Kardia Mechanicus from Ejectorhead – the gears are made from CD-ROM drive. Kardia Mechanicus – [via] Link.
MAKE pal Natetrue sent in his latest, cuff lights – We’ve all been there. Fumbling around in a dark parking lot, trying to find the keyhole on the car door or mailbox. Sure, you’d use a flashlight, but who has the room for those bulky outlines? Granted, the cuff lights aren’t the most practical of […]
This is a pretty interesting idea for a (re)make, it’s a chopped up grandfather clock – [via] Link.
In addition to operating Front Row, Keynote, and iPhoto, the Apple remote is capable of a few less documented tricks. You can sleep/wake your Mac by holding down the play/pause button (particularly useful for media boxes). Pressing both the play and the menu buttons, you can also pair the remote to your machine, so that […]
Julee of Sharing Needles blog keeps her arms cozy at her desk with her felted arm chair cover made from a recycled sweater. – Link.
Brian @ New York Daily has an incredible set of art bike photos from Josh Hadar in SoHo… Art Bikes (photos) – Link. Related: Art Bikes @ New York Daily photo – Link. Harmony blog – Link.
