Backyard Rocketeer
Airship writes – “PopSci has a front-page article about a Mexican grandfather who built his own Rocket Pack.” Link and video.
Month: March 2006
Crocheting the Lorenz Manifold
With just 25,511 crochet stitches, Dr. Hinke Osinga and Professor Bernd Krauskopf have created a real-life version of the Lorenz equation. This crochet piece helps us learn more about how chaos arises and is organized in systems as diverse chemical reactions. The work didn’t stop there. The duo challenged others to the test offering a […]
Learn about physics from Walter Lewin (videos) – more links
Jake writes – “Thanks for the link to the MIT physics lectures. The unfortunate part is that they only let you stream the videos, unless you go through and edit each link with an MIT server instead of an Akamai server. This gets tiring after 100 files or so, so after I altered every single […]
Read resistors with Resistulator
Simon writes – “You might be intersted in this OSX Dashboard Widget by Nicholas Zambetti Resistulator. It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is entered.” Link. Previously: HOW TO – Read color coded resistors […]
Intel Mac mini: Take Apart Guide (RAM & HD)
Tom writes – “The Intel Mac mini’s case is just like that on the PPC model and can be opened by prying upward with a sharp putty knife while working your way around the bottom of the case.” – Link. Related: Apple and Makers modding minis – Link. Making a Macswagen – Adding a Mac […]
Use your feet to control your computer
Dance Dance those emails away – “This is just one off-the-shelf piece of hardware we can use,” A.J. Brush, the lead researcher on the project, said after demonstrating the technology. “Now we’re looking at broadening, thinking about accelerometers or other things you could strap onto your feet so you really could be just sitting at […]
HOW TO – Dual voltage regulated power supply for CD-ROM in a truck
Talking Electronics writes – “A friend of mine who runs an electronic shop wants to install an old cd-rom to be used as a stand alone cd-player in his truck. His problem was to find a suitable power supply for this purpose. A cd-rom uses 2 power supplies, 5 Volts which is used in its […]
