Make It Last: Contest deadline extended!
With everyone busy preparing for the holidays, we’ve had a few requests to extend the entry deadline for the robotic plant contest a bit.
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Awesome projects built using Dorkbot PCB Order
Laen of Dorkbot Portland started a batch PCB Order project a year ago, to make it more affordable for his friends to order prototype boards by grouping them together into larger group buys.
Your Comments
And we’re back with our twenty-fifth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Steve Davee made a version of the Compressed air rocket, using a Presta valve and black pipe: Thanks for such a fantastic project and such thorough documentation, Rick! Here’s […]
Free print-and-fold papercraft Tron “bit” models
Models by Tektonten Papercraft.
Entire James Burke Connections series streaming free
If I were going to be a super hero, it would be hard to choose between Carl Sagan Man and James Burke Man. I love this show, and now I can watch it to my heart’s content, for free. All three Connections series are available, as well as The Day The Universe Changed. [via adafruit]
Total system failure completely annihilates power substation
A reader saw yesterday’s 500 kV interrupter arc video and pointed us to this amazing 1993 video footage of Miami’s Ives Dairy power substation failing in absolutely spectacular fashion. Unlike a lot of YouTube “disaster” footage, this clip from user gobo760 is extremely well annotated:
Physical email with Tableau
John Kestner made Tableau, a piece currently on display at the Saint Étienne International Design Biennale: Remember when we made a connection by handing someone a photo? As our social circle spreads across a wider geographic area, we look for ways to share experiences. Technology has reconnected us to some extent, but we fiddle with […]
