Incredible gallery of abandoned cannons in Russia via Buzzfeed. This is an abandoned army base on the sea coastline near the Murmansk city. It looks like it stays abandoned for quite a while and was built back in 1946 to protect Russian Northern coastline from somebody who might come without peace.
Mike D sent in this first test of his solar thermal organ, and some concept designs… Nice!
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
