Get outside and see some stars folks – “Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says. Aircraft condensation trails – known as contrails – can dissipate, becoming indistinguishable from other clouds. If trends in cheap air travel continue, says Professor Gerry Gilmore, […]
You can put your own custom photos on pencils using this site/service, $1 each. [via] Link.
Here’s “a nice collection of articles dealing with building your own cockpit, rudders, and any other stuff to enhance your computer simulation experience.” Link. Pictured here, Let’s Rumble by Craig Engler in DIY: Home Entertainment. Hack your couch to give you a kick in the pants: attach bass shakers to your furniture to round out […]
If you hang out in the user created virtual world Second Life one of the popular things to do is use animations for dancing, interaction, avatar personality and using for filming (also called Machinima) – animations are usually created with Poser, but now there’s a new free way to create the animation files (.BVH) . […]
The Exploratorium has hundreds of simple experiments, hands on activities, projects and things to make! [via] Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Djbones writes – “I’m building the kite aerial photography timer circuit from Make magazine vol 2, and this is the prototype. I changed the circuit a bit from the magazine, because sometimes just keeping the kite up for more than a minute is a challenge. I used a 2 ohm […]
Zonetag is an automatic geocode phone application for Nokia series 60 phones. Some of the features –“2-click photo upload to Flickr. Easily find your photos using location-based search When you upload your photos, ZoneTag will automatically tag the photo with the location where the photo was taken. ZoneTag can also connect via Bluetooth to a […]
