MAKE Flickr photo pool member Joelsuplido bought a pre-assembled nixie clock for $155 from niell.org that’s an incredibly good price… Here’s a photo – Link & here’s the site with more info (they’re sold out at the moment). Related: The most accurate nixie clock – ATOMIC! – Link. Maker of the day – David Forbes, […]
I for one welcome our talking Rubik’s cube solving robot overlords… Feorasm writes – “This is the new version of RuBot by Pete Redmond from Dublin, Ireland. It’s very different to the prototype but it has to be the coolest looking robot solver ever. There are cameras in the eyes of the head that scan […]
From time to time we ask Makers to send in cool shops and stores that are “Maker friendly” in their area, and this one looks like a gem, Devin writes – “If you live near Berkely, California, this is the ABSOLUTE best place to visit for supplies for Making things. They have incredible amounts of […]
Hey remember that “Squidsoap” for kids that encouraged them to washing their hands? Here’s another kid friendly soap, Skeleton fish! “The Skeleton Soap is a great toy to encourage young children to wash their hands. The Freddie Fish Skeleton Soap is made in the shape of a fish and washes away to reveal the skeleton. […]
Gnomic sent in this device that turns a TV into a simple, web configurable “Dashboard” – “YBox is a prototype/proof-of-concept for an ultra-cheap, always on, internet appliance that attaches to a standard TV set. The YBox is like Konfabulator for TV, turning TV into a platform for helpful, easy-to-read, live internet “channels”. It was Created […]
With North Korea in the news, we thought this would be an interesting article to post online…In the current issue of MAKE we have an article by George Dyson called “Strange Love: or, how they learned to start worrying and love to hate the bomb.” Here’s a link to the article on MAKE and the […]
Ray has a spectacular how-to on 3D sculpting pumpkins, he writes: “If you have yet to try and carve a pumpkin in a 3-D manner you need to. Its fun and everybody enjoys a cool pumpkin. Unfortunately they begin to rot less than a week after carving so be sure to take plenty of pictures. […]
