MAKE Flickr photo pool member Riccardomuccio posted up another great Kirlian photo, this one is a coin – “Corona around a coin exposed to high voltage. The line below is the wire connecting it to ground. This is known as a Kirlian photo. More like this in my Plasma Set“ – Link. Previous: Leaf corona […]
Check out these kids having a ball, er geometric sphere, from our Weekend Project – Picnic Geometry – Thanks Typewriter! Link. Be sure to post your geometric creations in the MAKE Flickr photo pool!
Here are a few dandies – what’s new, from the old – over at Modern Mechanix… Sea sickness the “real terror of the sea” may have been solved in 1933 with this auto-leveling bed. Stylish homemade radiation suit for bicycling.
OK, Makers if you haven’t already check out this week’s video edition of Weekend Projects, learn to make geometric spheres from all sorts of things you might find at a picnic. Watch the video to see how to build an icosohedron out of paper plates, cups, and plastic sheeting. This is a great project to […]
Here are some Popular Electronics covers and cover complete stories/article from 1955 to 1975 – “Popular Electronics was started by Ziff-Davis in October 1954 as a magazine for students and experimenters. It became the “World’s Largest-Selling Electronics Magazine” and proudly listed the circulation figure on the Contents page, (240,151 in April 1957 .) In later […]
James Clar’s Flexigrid – ” Bendable LED display – Created for the Milan Triennial 2005 with New York architecture company Hariri+Hariri. Embedded into a suit, this interactive display would allow for users to talk to the clothing, having it react in different ways depending on how you talked to it. This would give the clothing […]
Wow, this pedal and electric assisted human power vehicle seats 4 and looks like a lot of fun – [via] Link.
