My bedside table is always stacked with books I’m reading, have read or am planning to read. Why not add one more that provides a glow by which I can actually … read? Steve Hoefer of Grathio Labs shows you how to convert a hardcover book into a rad reading light.
Nathan Bergey created this awesome “ISS Lamp” that glows when the International Space Station is flying overhead. The International Space Station (ISS) is a marvel of current technology and humanity. Sadly, we often forget it’s there. This light sits on a desk and lights up when the space station passes overhead. It stays lit as […]
Marital Code (detail), Inga Hamilton QR codes are pretty cool – they’re square black-and-white graphics that your camera phone (or a barcode reader) can recognize. The intricate pattern of a QR code is actually data, and when your device reads this data, it gets pointed to a website. QR codes are free and readily available […]
From our friends with The Tesla Project in Austin: The Tesla Project is a one-day extravaganza celebrating the genius of Nikola Tesla. 2010 was our first year and we had over 30 participating artists, a line-up of bands, a Tesla Roadster, computer-enrichment activities for children, a film, a Tesla coil demo and how-to presentation, plus […]
Whenever I bring my TV-B-Gone out to restaurants, I look suspicious pointing it around. So I embedded the device into a jacket and turned it into a wearable TV silencer. For the switch, I sewed paths of conductive thread that become bridged by the metal zipper pull when it passes by. At the restaurant or […]
Join us Friday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep10 is our first ever Hackerspace Roadshow. Take a virtual road trip with us to five hackerspaces in five cities across the US to see their communities and projects. NYC Resistor Milwaukee Makerspace Twin Cities Maker at The Hack […]
I like the physical, visual representation of data. If done well, it can forever change the way a person thinks about and understands something. So, I think this keyboard frequency sculpture by Mike Knuepfel is neat. It depicts which keyboard keys are used most frequently, with the height of the key proportional to how often […]
