Two hours outside of Tokyo in Chiba prefecture is Hackerfarm, a hackerspace that applies technology to growing things like potatoes. Christopher Wang, better known as Akiba, is thinking that potatoes would feed a lot of people if food shortages result from COVID-19. The experiment is called Project Potatohead — A Farm-to-Foodbank Initiative. However, Akiba […]
La Fabrique DIY creates glow-in-the-dark bicycle wheels that recharge themselves with UV LEDs and a smartphone power pack.
Anyone that reads this site has probably heard of 3D printing, but the idea of printing fibers will be new to most. “The Bug” is a sort of composite fiber 3D printing machine. Instead of simply laying melted plastic (or other media) on top of itself, it lays fibers with a UV-cured resin on top […]
With Halloween rolling around soon, it seems appropriate to feature a geek-tastic decoration such as this pumpkin made to look like the Death Star.
What a clever gimmick! SVK is written by Transmetropolitan author Warren Ellis, illustrated by Matt Brooker, and published in “collaboration” with London-based design studio BERG (whatever that means). £10 plus shipping gets you the book and a small UV-LED flashlight for viewing the thought bubbles. [via adafruit]
While researching a new project (as us mad-scientists-types are prone to do), I found this amazing video. It’s basically a clear chemical that undergoes a reaction in the presence of UV light that makes it very quickly turn green. But, the key here is that the reaction is also quickly reversible – in about a […]
