MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
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 Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this!
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
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 do...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
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,...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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!
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 first meeting...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 even...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Olympus BioScapes competition winners , amazing photos! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Imaging | Digg this!
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Remake | Digg this!
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009 , good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos here ... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this!
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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 show up....
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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....
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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 | Read more articles in Instructables | Digg this!
MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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 | Digg this!
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