Where do you get that special something for that special project if you aren’t quite sure what it is or where to get it? Why the MIT Flea Market, of course! The MIT Radio Society, in conjunction with the MIT UHF Repeater Association, the MIT Electronics Research Society, and the Harvard Wireless Club, sponsors a […]
Image from WEEE Man WEEE Man is a massive pile of technojunk brought out of the netherworld of the e-waste stream. As an educational project, the WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) Man site provides useful resources for teachers and students. Their overview is a good place to start on the big picture of the […]
Via SkyNews: This is the £50,000 winner of a contest to find the world’s greenest invention – a solar-powered oven made from cardboard. The cooker took the FT Climate Change Challenge crown after beating 300 other creations, including a food additive which stops cows passing wind. The Kyoto Box oven – which costs just £3.50 […]
Here’s a super-simple set-up for transferring analog film to digital: A lens (or a macro lens, or a lens with extension rings) is inserted into the circular hole in the front. A negative holder made of two sheets of vinyl with spacers is at the opposite end. After the film is inserted, the box is […]
Over at New World Geek, Patti points us to this inspiring roundup of art made from junk and recycled materials. Recycled Treasures Converted Into Inspired Art
What to do with all of those street corner news boxes and video drop boxes that are suddenly in great supply? Seems like the piece we published in MAKE, Volume 10 struck a nerve and inspired several sites to round up other potential uses. Like: A cool casemod. An aquarium: You’ll have the most unique […]
Photo from The Boston Globe A few years ago a dragon turned up down the street. Chuck Nudd had spent some winter months concocting a behemoth animatronic dragon from some cast off steel junk. It started out as a dinosaur, but morphed into a dragon as the design came out. Draco is both wildly popular […]
