Tenderbutton would be proud- In case you need to create a monolayer of lipids inside a spherical flask and don’t to spend $3000 on a commercial rotary evaporator, this is the design you need. Justin Ingram and I set out to build such a device from things found around the lab for a small fraction […]
Raphael writes – Here it is: a box, yes, ladies and gentlemen, a box that can read your pulse and displays it visually as well as auditory. All of this in one simple box. The wireless aspect is still to come, this is the 1.0 version – wired. Look for the 2.0 wireless version next […]
Every now and then, I dust off one of the many classic games I never finished and give it another go. This time it’s Baldur’s Gate II. Every time I do this, I have to deal with the “Insert Your Play Disc” hassle. I don’t mind this when it’s my desktop computer, but on my […]
Chan writes – This is an experimental work to monitor a spectrum pattern in radio band, and is a continuous project from Audio Spectrum Monitor. To analyze the spectrum of an input signal, I chose an Atmel AVR microcontroller that used in the Audio Spectrum Monitor to process FFT. When think it easy, it can […]
Turns out rats are ticklish, and they laugh… It might even work using a bat detector like the one we showed you how to construct here @ MAKE… I supposed you could potentially tune in to the rat giggling… Aristotle declared that humans are the only animal to laugh, but then, he never saw this […]
This photo blog has an amazing view in to what it was like 100 years ago, a lot of the backgrounds have the machinery and what people (in these photos, children) made back then… Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did […]
Cyenobite has some great photos from this week’s MAKE: Philly! The March meeting of Makephilly.com The topics included mousebots, a brazing demonstration, and a maker challenge to build a motorized ski lift that had to transport to “cork heads” up an 18″ incline. In addition to various makers showing off their creations. MakePhilly March 07 […]
