This custom designed robotic system was intended for a vineyard in order to build a wall of 20,000 bricks that had to be precisely arranged in a programmed manner in order to control the amount of air and sunlight that passes through to the plants. Each brick sits on a different angle than the next […]
If we look at good-quality 1 carat diamonds, we find that they are quite expensive compared to the industrial diamonds we saw earlier. Now, the diamond monopoly hasn’t kept prices quite as high as LSD, however they are doing a very impressive job of trying. LSD doses measure in the micrograms, which makes the per-pound […]
Ingenious evaporative cooler built to cool camel’s milk in Somalia. I love the use of corrugated galvanized iron sheets and sisal sack fabric to create the airflow and cooling system. The upper ends of the fabric overhang in a water trough that rings the top of the cooler. Capillary action causes the water to slowly […]
Yes, you too can learn to operate the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, because they just published the 1,589-page technical detail document. Via Hackaday. More: First particles injected into Large Hadron Collider atom smasher Better safe than sorry – keep the Large Hadron Collider on all the time! Photos of the Large Hadron […]
Some screws, a cardboard tube, and a half-pound of dry lentils and you’ve got yourself a Shamanic sound-maker. How to Make your very own Rainstick! More: DIY Rainstick
Although the maker himself explains that he “has no idea why someone would need one of these”, we like the bizarre nature of this hack. Check out the step by step directions at the link below. Lighter Bottle Cap
[A mop made out of old socks] [Bike reflectors made from CDs] On Street Use, KK has some nifty pics of improvised street tech spotted on the streets of Thailand. The images are from a book of photographs by Thomas Kalak called Thailand – Same same, but different! Improvisation in Thailand
