Can you see the stars at night in your neighborhood? Maybe not, but the Civil Twilight Collective is working to raise awareness and encourage solutions to light pollution. Lunar Resonant street lighting is an interesting way of providing an appropriate amount of illumination to cityscapes. Photographer Christina Seely has been doing nightscapes of the brightest […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Pauric shares techniques for redesigning/improving consumer devices in need of a makeover. His example project, a ‘sunrise alarm clock’ – One of the first things I do with device I buy is take it apart to see how it works, see if there’s anything interesting going on inside. There’s a […]
We’ve covered this simple kitchen-table science project before: how to make a spectrometer from a cereal box and a CD. Here, PopSci offers a 5-minute video on the project. More: A CD – cereal box spectrometer
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Micah’s Lego Sky project incorporates an Ikea LED light strip and touchpad control – The Altoids tin has the modified driver circuit: It’s the original circuit board with the microcontroller removed, then a homemade Arduino clone to control it. The orange box is an old Cirque PS/2 touchpad, removed […]
Homemade strobe photography by Tom Anderson and Wendell Anderson… JUMPIN’ JACKED FLASH We built a strobe flash out of a Kodak disposable camera and then designed a circuit that triggers the flash when it detects a sound or other measurable event. The strobe flash will freeze motion! We use a digital camera set for a […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Patrick writes – A lamp I designed and built out of various pipe materials I got from Home Depot. It has a water valve style dimmer switch. Video of the dimmer system coming soon! Well done! This could add an inviting yet appropriately industrial look to a workbench setup. […]
Hot glue guns & LEDs – two great tastes tools that go great together – What would I do without LEDs and hot glue? They are integral components to nine tenths of my projects. Well, while I was working on my first instructable I noticed that the LEDs I’d hot glued onto the wires kind […]
