Ken writes – “Saw your post on the blog about making ferrofluid. If you want to use the stuff with kids, here’s a safer (cleaner too, no oil) version as well as some background information.” – Link. The videos are great. Previous: Make your own Ferrofluid – Link.
Make your own solar thermal panel for about $50 – “One of the main uses of energy in the American home is to heat up water. It takes a lot of electricity to heat up water, this cost a lot of money. All day while you are at work, or at school, the sun is […]
We had the wood motorcycle today, so how about a wood car? ” It took Nickel more than four years to form the body by laminating 1-inch strips of mahogany. He used 1,000 board-feet feet of wood cut into 4,183 individual pieces, five gallons of glue, 60 pounds of drywall screws and four gallons of […]
Gfixler writes – “27 3/4″ clear acrylic cubes are drilled with 108 3/16″ holes, fitted with 108 D32 neodymium disc magnets with proper polarities facing out from each, and assembled into a size-matched magnetic version of the original Rubik’s Cube.” – Link.
Peter writes – “The Monome is a new music interface with LCD-backlit pads, a USB interface that transmits OSC and MIDI data to a computer, and — here’s the unusual part — open source, hackable firmware and software interface. Touch the pads, and you can use this as a step-sequencer and remix tool (as in […]
Here’s how to make a generator from a lot of old hard drives and a drill press – [via] – Link.
This wood motorcycle popped in our suggest a site mail box – don’t know anything about it, but it looks great.
