Light a Fire to Access This Post-Apocalyptic Digital Safe
When the end times come, you’ll still be able to download survival guides from this DIY digital cache that’s powered by fire.
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Turn Your Handwriting into a Font for Free
Think your handwriting is pretty neat? Well here’s your chance to share it with the world by turning it into a font… for free!
How-To: Turn Any Photo into a Quilt Pattern
Turn any image into a pixelated quilt pattern! Don’t stop there, use it as a guide for cross stitching and more!
Constructing the Battery Signal Generator
Tips for building your own circuits.
Knife Switches, Patent Stamps, and Cats – Celebrating the New Year with Pratt’s Steam-Power
Revelers have been tooting in the New Year at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with steam-powered whistles since 1965. Here’s a tour of the Engine Room that provides the whistles and a homemade calliope with their steam.
Hackett’s Bike Generator Keeps the Juice Flowing During Blackouts
Having witnessed the effects of Superstorm Sandy on the New York power grid, Hackett built this easy bike generator to stave off the next power outage.
Charge Your Smartphone–With Fire!
If fire wasn’t the first thing invented, it was probably the second. The human race has had a long relationship with fire, and now you can use it to charge your smartphone, GPS, or anything else that you can connect to this thermoelectric generator using a USB cable.
