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User AUTUIN at Free Geek Vancouver took apart a Coleman TV Lantern and mounted the guts inside a 1950′s era radio. In doing so, he used the Arduino TV Out library to make the screen stream algorithmically generated Buckminster Fuller-esque quotations that are saved to an SD card. This is ... Read More

I’ve written before about some of the cool applications of silicone polymers we’re seeing in consumer products these days. Here’s another example. The good folks at Rockler Woodworking & Hardware just sent me a couple of their new (ish) Silicone Glue Brushes, a clever idea for the shop I imagine ... Read More

I had the great pleasure this last Saturday of attending the Young Makers program at the Exploratorium. The theme of the month was Time… and what a great time we had. You can watch a webcast of the Meet the Makers portion of the day here. Here Are Some Highlights: David Forbes ... Read More

The current iPhone takes a pretty decent macro shot to begin with. If you’re looking to go beyond what you get out-of-box, take a look at the 8x macro lens from Westchester, IL area Etsy user Chris Ferguson. It’s a machined hunk of ABS with quality optics that adheres to ... Read More

Refurbishing old scientific and industrial equipment from eBay is something I love to do. If you understand what you’re looking for and are a savvy eBay user, you can score some amazing bargains on stuff that just a few years back was high-end, cutting edge, extremely expensive research-, factory-, ... Read More

The Cryoscope shows the user exactly what to expect outside by haptically exhibiting exactly how cold or warm it is to be outside. The user simply touches an aluminum cube that has been heated or cooled to the appropriate temperature. The unit fetches weather data from ... Read More

DSO Nano v2.0, from the Maker Shed, is a pocket sized Digital Storage Oscilloscope designed for basic electronic engineering tasks. The DSO features an ARM Cortex™-M3 32 bit platform which provides basic waveform monitoring. It has a 320*240 color LCD, micro SD card storage, portable probes, LiPo Battery, USB connection, ... Read More

The embedded video is a collection of soundbytes that give a good general background of the Glove-TalkII system from Sidney S. Fels and Geoffrey E. Hinton.at The University of British Columbia. But the brief samples of the system in operation that it includes are, frankly, not a great advertisement ... Read More

This robot, developed at Cornell, can travel along beams and modify them. BuildBot! ... Read More

A good boombox is always handy to have around. If you’ve got access to a ShopBot and a laser cutter, you might want to give this minimalistic iPhone boombox from Instructables user MTriest a go. It’s novel acrylic and MDF sandwich case design could easily be modified to house other ... Read More