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- BlueSMiRF found in credit card sniffer
- Mystery iPhone musical instrument - World's most expensive ocarina
- Stained glass d20s
- CRAFT Thanksgiving roundup
- 3D renderings of the Mandelbrot set
- New in the Maker Shed: Microbe Motel kit
- Science through graphic novels
- Tiny solar-powered brass engine in a wineglass
- New hackerspace in Chicagoland: Workshop 88
- Maker Shed kiosks at Fry's
- Mint tin electronics dev kit packs the essentials
- Olympus BioScapes competition winners
- Mac mailbox
- LHC tweets it's first circulating beam of 2009
- Building a shop presence notification system
- Vacuum tube prototyping board
- Free LED Cookbook from TI
- How-To: Open source intervalometer for Canon, Nikon cameras
- Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Gifts for dads
- PYMT, a multi-touch library for Python
- Cardboard tube battle
- LEGO-sized hole punch by MUJI
- Cross multi-tool
- How PCBs are routed
- NEC announces universal translator … sorta, kinda
BlueSMiRF found in credit card sniffer 23.11 07:05
SparkFun BlueSMiRF found in credit card sniffer, interesting Sparkfun product placement. Nate writes -
That is an officer of the law holding up a device that was found within a 'PIN pad' in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I didn't know what a PIN pad is, so here's a wikipedia article and google images. From the article (November 5th, 2009), it looks like someone has found a couple serial pins on the ...
Mystery iPhone musical instrument - World's most expensive ocarina 23.11 06:59
MAKE Japan is having a meet up, check out this iPhone instrument! It looks like 3 iPhones mounted to a laser cut body and the player "blows" to produce music!
Stained glass d20s 23.11 04:00
From Flickr user Bloodthirsty Vegetarians, who also produce an eponymous podcast. [via Neatorama]
Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Gaming | Digg this!...CRAFT Thanksgiving roundup 23.11 00:59
We have some special Thanksgiving recipes on CRAFT to make your feast extra delicious. Check 'em all out!
Thanksgiving Feast: How-To Brine & Roast a Turkey
Thanksgiving Feast: Side Dishes
Thanksgiving Feast: Pumpkin Pie with Caramel Pecan Topping
Homemade Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream
How-To: Bake a Turkey-Shaped Cake
3D renderings of the Mandelbrot set 22.11 18:31
A big Keanu "Whoa" over these gorgeous 3D renderings of fractals. The article offers a fascinating back story about the 20-year quest to adequately display a Mandelbulb, such a 3D analog rendering of a Mandelbrot set.
The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot
New in the Maker Shed: Microbe Motel kit 22.11 17:00
The Microbe Motel is the grossest, smelliest, nastiest science kit we've ever offered. Ever! Other than some common household items, the Microbe Motel includes everything you need to
grow colorful, stinky, colonies of household germs, bacteria, molds, and maybe even a fungus or two. Don't worry, you can kill them when you're finished.
Here are just a few of the experiments and projects you can d...
Science through graphic novels 22.11 12:00
Science Friday's "Science Through Graphic Novels"... Great interview(s)! Using graphic novels to teach science...
In this segment, we'll take a look at two graphic novels that approach science from a different direction. One tackles Darwin's 'Origin of Species,' while the other deals with the life and ideas of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell.Michael Keller - Journalist, Author, ...
Tiny solar-powered brass engine in a wineglass 22.11 04:00
This is the work of Szymon Klimek, who has been honored by the Internet Craftsmanship Museum. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Makers | Digg this!...New hackerspace in Chicagoland: Workshop 88 21.11 22:00
Good news for those in Chicagoland! Planning is underway to form Workshop 88, a hackerspace in the west suburbs of Chicago. Here's your chance to get in on the ground floor!
We're currently in the planning stage, and we're looking for interested people in the area to help us get started. We're holding bi-weekly meetings Mondays at 6:30 until we're ready to rent some space and move in. The f...
Maker Shed kiosks at Fry's 21.11 21:01
We're ecstatic about the fact that we now have Maker Shed kiosks, with magazines, books, and electronics kits, in several California Fry's stores. We think this is big news, not only for Maker Media, but for all indie makers -- a major retail chain is now giving small kit-makers this level of exposure. And, we think it's particularly cool that we designed and built these kiosks in-house, and...
Mint tin electronics dev kit packs the essentials 21.11 13:30
From the MAKE Flickr pool
Once you've caught the 'electronics bug', spending time away from the workbench/lab can seem an unpleasant prospect. Luckily, one can carry on learning and experimenting with a minimal amount of hardware. Nick shares his own recipe for ultra-compact electronics prototyping - the Altoids Tin Electronics Lab
This is a small electronics lab in an altoids tin. It contains nearly everything to work on small projects, such as a breadboard, components (including several ICs), and a adjustable power supply. The power supply is a simple LM317 circuit, with the 317's metal tab cut off to make it fit.For details, check out Nick's essential part list. I'm guessing quite a few of us have mobile kits along these lines. Share pics of your setup via the MAKE Flickr pool - we'd love to see 'em!
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Olympus BioScapes competition winners 21.11 12:00
Olympus BioScapes competition winners, amazing photos!
Mac mailbox 21.11 05:00
Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland...
LHC tweets it's first circulating beam of 2009 21.11 03:45
LHC tweets it's first circulating beam of 2009, good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos
here...
Building a shop presence notification system 21.11 03:00
As a member of Hack Pittsburgh, our local hackerspace, one thing I've wanted to know if anyone else is there before I make the trek over. Well, so did Andy Leer and Marty McGuire, so they decided to build a shop presence notification system. They reasoned that they could measure the ambient light level to determine if someone was around, because people tend to turn on the lights when they sh...
Vacuum tube prototyping board 21.11 00:00
Bruce Heran made this prototyping board for his tube projects. He writes:
This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test "board." I do a lot of work with tubes and love to design and improve circuits. In the process I often use various CAD type programs to rough out the designs....
Free LED Cookbook from TI 21.11 00:00
By way of Andrew Q Righter of HacDC comes word of this free PDF from Texas Instruments, a 41-page "cookbook" of circuit designs and application notes for TI's LED-related components. [Thanks, Andrew!]
LED Reference Design Cookbook [PDF]
How-To: Open source intervalometer for Canon, Nikon cameras 20.11 23:05
Instructables user peterdr has put together a really excellent tutorial on how to build his CT-1 open-source hardware intervalometer for Canon and Nikon digital cameras. There's more info about the project at his personal website, and a parts kit is for sale on Amazon.com.
Read more | Permalink | Comments | ...Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Gifts for dads 20.11 23:01
There's a funny thing about dads' toys. Very often, kids borrow dad's supposedly grown-up toys and dad plays with toys designed for a much younger demographic. With that in mind, we present the Gifts for Dads list, filled with stuff that may appeal to more than one generation in your household. And you may also want to check out the holiday gift guides over on the GeekDad blog.
PYMT, a multi-touch library for Python 20.11 22:00
Interested in building programs with fancy multi-touch interfaces? Speak Python? Well, in that case you might want to have a look at PYMT. Designed for rapid interface design, it looks like it would be fun to play around with. [via the space station]
Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Computers | ...Cardboard tube battle 20.11 21:00
My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting. The Boston Globe covered the preparations:
The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party.
The weapons are cylindrical pieces of thick cardboard about 4 feet long. The appeal, explains young-adult librarian E...
LEGO-sized hole punch by MUJI 20.11 20:00
Paper craft meets LEGO with MUJI's quad hole punch and kits, available November 27th at MUJI Japan. [via CRAFT]
Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!...Cross multi-tool 20.11 17:58
Dutch designer Michiel Cornelissen sells these cruciform screwdrivers, which are laser-sintered stainless steel. There's a flat-blade, a Phillips head, and an IKEA-sized hex bit. [via Dude Craft]
Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Toolbox | Digg this!...How PCBs are routed 20.11 17:00
One hour of PCB routing with EAGLE, compressed to seven minutes, over at adafruit.
Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in How it's made | Digg this!...NEC announces universal translator … sorta, kinda 20.11 16:00
NEC announced what could be an early, real-life version of the universal translator -
NEC said the Tele Scouter was intended to be a business tool that could aid sales staff who would have information about a client's buying history beamed into their eye during a conversation.
But, it said, it could also be put to a more exotic use as a translation aid. In this scenario the microphone on the heads...
