This simple, clever piece of stained glass art hangs on the wall of Washington, DC area TV/Video production guru Peter Roof. Dunno if he makes them or not, but he says “contact me if you want one.” Looks like an easy remake for anyone with basic stained-glass skills, too. [via Dude Craft]
Maker Bob Alexander has built this awesome small form factor, Core i5, Windows 7 computer inside of a case that’s an homage to the Altair 8800. He found the case on eBay and it looks like the type used on the Altair 680. He built the front panel himself. Nice work, Bob! Mini Altair 8800 […]
Why does he have my avatar in 8-bit? Because he took an Apple //e and wrote a bootable 5.25″ Twitter floppy for it! This all makes me immensely happy, because I, too, spent my formative years in front of an Apple //e.
Big fish caught by electrocution (1931). People seem to have a different relationship with fish and electricity in the 30s.
Our friends from Almost Scientific, the Five Ton Crane Crew, and the Raygun Gothic Rocketship project, were out at NASA Ames for this year’s Yuri’s Night. They set up the rocketship and gave people rides — okay, tours of the ship, but still… Above is a time-lapse of the Five Ton Crane crew assembling the […]
Brooklyn’s Brian Moore makes these cool information age / 20th century propaganda mash-up posters. Right now, he’s selling prints of Loose Tweets Sink Fleets and Wikipedia is Free, shown above, and he’s got several more designs in this Flickr set. [via Boing Boing]
Russell Ohl (Wikipedia) is generally credited with inventing the first “modern” solar cell. His 1946 patent for a “Light sensitive electrical device” inspired an unnamed British science teacher from Surrey to create a working version of the device, which was recently discovered by his family and found to still work perfectly. In full sunlight, it generates 1.5 volts. According to this article in The Daily Mail:
