Here’s info on the next Make: NYC meeting: Challenge: Balsa Catapult Medieval geniuses, put on your gauntlets and prepare to throw them down. We’re making catapults. All shapes and sizes. The more deadly, the better! Teams will compete for most effective (devastating) design. Show and Tell Meet your fellow NYC Makers and show off your […]
Bob Stack, of GO-Tech writes: The July GO-Tech (Ann Arbor, MI) meeting is tomorrow, July 14, at 7 pm. Everyone is welcome. We’ll have the usual assortment of 5-minute presentations–so bring your cool demos. Topics in the past have ranged from metal casting to printed circuit board design to web-based home automation and everything in […]
A group of makers in the Kansas City area is organizing a meeting to talk about the forming of a Make: KC group. They write: Do you enjoy creating new inventions or taking things apart to see how they work? Maybe you’ve seen some of the do-it-yourself projects in MAKE magazine but you’re not sure […]
Scott Amron of Amron Experimental wins this decade’s OMG-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that award. Via Neatorama.
You can thank Nikola Tesla for helping you read this. Before his harnessing of the energy of Niagara Falls, most electricity was transmitted via direct current. Tesla pioneered the use of alternating current that is used in our electric grid. Check into the documentary film excerpted above for more info and links.
Today marks the 153rd anniversary of the birth of a man who quite literally illuminated the world. Inventor of the radio, the AC power distribution system, the AC motor, wireless power transmission, the Tesla turbine, and a score of other technologies too numerous to list, Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in the […]
The members of ArcAttack send Birthday wishes to Nikola Tesla the best way they know – with crackling bolts of electricity. [Thanks Joe!] Consider that sentiment very much seconded! Happy 153rd B-day Nik! More: Tesla guitar High Voltage Tesla Coil Lost Knowledge: Save Tesla’s lab!
