Want to improve the look of your next photo or video, but don’t want to spend big bucks to do it? Well, we’ve got you covered with these DIY projects, from the MAKE archives: Maker Workshop PDF – Steadycam , Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Video Making | Digg this!
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DIY Video/Photo Roundup: Camera rigs
Forget the laboratory supply store, you can score a centrifuge on late-night TV! I recently visited a lab that had a salad spinner on their lab bench and at first I wondered if they were putting together a salad lunch there but when I took a peek I got a nice surprise. It turns out that the salad spinner was actually a bench top, “minifuge” version of a plate centrifuge.
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Make a lab centrifuge out of a salad spinner
81 Places I’d Love to See the PlayStation Move [PhotoshopContest] Who knew that the PS Move would be so fun to stick into out-of-context situations? Because man, the results of this week’s Photoshop Contest are some of the best ever
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81 Places I’d Love to See the PlayStation Move [PhotoshopContest]
The folks over at the Milwaukee Makerspace built these fine Pot O’ Gold floats to drive in a St. Patrick’s Day parade. They don’t seem to have build details available, however you can get a good idea of how they were build by looking through the project photos
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Lucky Makers drive pots of gold in St. Patrick’s Day parade
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, might we suggest a lovely Green Mini Breadboard ? Half the size of a half-size breadboard, this Mini Breadboard is perfect for tiny projects and for sticking onto the top of Arduino ProtoShields! Normally, we’d encourage you to choose from 5 colors, but today, please consider green! Features: Measures 1.4″ x 1.6″ (3.5cm x 4.5cm) 170 tie points Brings good luck to its user Fits great on Arduino ProtoShield Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Shed Store | Digg this!
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In the Maker Shed: Green Mini Breadboards
This Segway-style transportation device uses famed kinetic artist Theo Jansen’ s style of bug-like locomtion. I think the rider appears to surf on another creature, perhaps a crayfish? Cajun Crawler [via @EMSL ] More: Theo Jansen papercraft walker Theo Jansen-inspired Arduino walker Interview with Theo Jansen…
We hit independent Oregonian jewelers Nicholas and Felice’s Pi Pendant and Pi Earrings for Pi Day this last Sunday, but, as you can see from these pics, they’ve got cool handmade jewelry for geeks of all flavors. If you’re a chemist, for instance, you might appreciate their Atomic Symbol for Silver Necklace , shown above, either as jewelry or as a gorgeous (and attractively labeled) silver specimen for your elements collection. And a little something for the ladies (who also happen to be bad-ass electrical engineers): Diode Symbol Sterling Silver Earrings And, finally, for just about anyone who’s geeky enough to be operating the computer required to read this blog in the first place (and who, you know, has pierced ears), these awesome HTML “head” tag earrings , to remind you and others where you keep your meta-data
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Featured Maker: Nicholas and Felice
A study by Noah Fierer and co-workers at the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests that the mix of bacterial flora each of us leaves behind on, say, our computer keyboard or mouse, may be sufficiently unique to identify us: “Each one of us leaves a unique trail of bugs behind as we travel through our daily lives,” said Fierer, an assistant professor in CU-Boulder’s ecology and evolutionary biology department. “While this project is still in it’s preliminary stages, we think the technique could eventually become a valuable new item in the toolbox of forensic scientists.” The study was published March 15 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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You can be identified by the germs you leave behind
A slideshow on PC World shares ideas on how you can make practical use of outdated electronic gadgets gathering dust in your bottom drawer or in the closet under the stairs, courtesy of a book entitled “62 Projects to Make With a Dead Computer (and Other Discarded Electronics)” by Randy Sarafan . With Earth Day a little over a month away, it is a good time as any to talk about ideas that will keep e-waste from populating landfills.
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Reuse and Recycle: Resurrecting Old Gadgets
The Vancouver Winter Olympics has ended, but it is an interesting piece of trivia to know that when the world-class athletes bagged the Gold (or Silver, or Bronze), they proudly wore more than just a symbol for victory: it was also a win for Mother Earth. According to an article on Audubon magazine, some of the gold, silver and bronze that made it to the medals were salvaged by a Canadian mining company – Teck Resources – from old computer circuit boards.
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Olympic Gold: A Win for Earth!
A post on the Twitter blog reads: “Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page — and that’s just the beginning.” All this, Twitter CEO Evan Williams shares, will be possible through a feature called “@anywhere,” which he announced at the festival where Twitter also first came to light in 2007 – the South by Southwest Interactive festival (SXSW) – on Monday. The post came out on the same day as well.
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Twitter CEO Introduces @anywhere
Check out this excellent instructable that shows you how to bend mains wire into a roller coaster track for a ball bearing. More: How ball bearings are made HOW TO – Make a ball bearing trampoline game Right on Track – Rolling Ball Sculpture Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Instructables | Digg this!
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Build a ball-bearing roller coaster
Netflix App Streams Gorgeously on Windows Phone 7 [NetFlix] Here’s the first demo of Netflix running on Windows Phone 7 . Keep in mind, it’s technically a prototype, but equipped with show subscriptions and 3G streaming, Netflix is super hot on the platform. We want this.
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Netflix App Streams Gorgeously on Windows Phone 7 [NetFlix]
In response to DIY Movie Making Month, one of our readers, Angela Sheehan, sent us this wonderful little movie she made with her (then six-year-old) sister: This is a stop-motion collage I made, based on drawings by my little sister (six years old at the time). Back in 2005, I was studying animation and taking classes in childhood development/learning and wanted to combine the two. I decided to make a movie with her over Thanksgiving break.
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Two sisters collaborate on The Three Girls
It may not be the fastest printer out there, but the new Kodak ESP 7250 has a few nice things to offer, such as built in wireless as well as Bluetooth printing and a dedicated photo tray. Kodak also offers decently priced ink cartridges so it won’t hurt as much to replace them. And photos come out looking excellent–as befits a printer from Kodak.
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Kodak ESP 7250 All-in-One Printer Reviewed
IPOD movies is a gigantic pick on getting the latest and most talented movies on the double and without the hassles of traveling to the video rental location. There are a lottery of locations precise on the entanglement that can fix up with provision you with the kindest of the kindest for much less. There are sundry locations that do offer a considerable stretch of hand-picked when it comes to IPOD movies
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Ipod Movies – Download And Keep Your Selections
What if you could turn your skin into a touch-interface? That’s the idea driving Skinput, a system that takes advantage of the vibrations generated when we tap our body. The prototype is accurate enough that different parts of the body can be turned into switches that control a variety of functions, as the video below demonstrates: Using a tiny projector embedded in the armband that captures taps on the human arm, Skinput can even display a dynamic graphical interface to present information and options to users
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Skinput Makes the Human Body an Interface
The rise in 3-D printing is not just about being able to create your own customized cufflinks or action figure. Researchers are discovering that the technology is helping to create better prosthetic limbs . An article in CNET News by Daniel Terdiman looks at a presentation by industrial designer Scott Summit that discusses “the idea that the era of blind adherence to uniformity may well be at an end,” thanks in part to 3-D printing
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Using 3-D Printers for Artificial Limbs
Article marketing is one of the unconditional basics of internet marketing. Having articles all more than the internet is a marketing method which enables you to instate some in days of yore and work legal without delay and reap the benefits for years to come. This article transfer research some of the advantages of article marketing and its subtleties in orderliness to aid internet marketers to turn to account it to their finest advantage.
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Article Marketing – A Newbies Manage To Article Marketing
But not big enough that you’ll have a hard time carrying it around. The HTC HD2 is easily the best example of the slate smartphone form factor, which is all screen and pretty much nothing else. It’s also the smartphone with the biggest display I’ve ever seen
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10 Minutes With the HTC HD2: It’s Big!