June 14, 2010
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Save Up to 75% on Vitamins & Supplements at BotanicChoice.com
Cosmic Spectators Train Their Sights on South Africa [World Cup]
Cosmic Spectators Train Their Sights on South Africa [World Cup] Humans and the occasional antelope aren’t the only beings training their eyes on South Africa for that World Cup thing. Indeed, there are a few artificial spectators as well, hovering above, hundreds of miles in orbit.
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Cosmic Spectators Train Their Sights on South Africa [World Cup]
June 13, 2010
Novelty: The Life Blood Of Your Business
If you’re running or managing a business and after it to be around for a dream of prematurely, you essential to invest a good allotment of your duration innovating. That’s because, in a fast-moving circle, where people reckon on things to come down with safer and sport, and cheaper and cheaper, novelty is your course to getting ahead of your competition
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Novelty: The Life Blood Of Your Business
What Are The Inappropriate Signs Of Pregnancy?
Pregnancy is the carrying of story or more embryos or fetuses past female mammals, including humans, advantaged their bodies. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations (in behalf of prototype, in the dispute of twins, or triplets). Compassionate pregnancy is the most studied of all mammalian pregnancies.
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What Are The Inappropriate Signs Of Pregnancy?
How to pocket steadfast that your publication concept is the next best seller
Every one has a unique story to tell. From explaining concern processes to revealing our personal relation, we all procure a logical yearning to interest our experiences with the world. As a conclusion, bookstore shelves are loaded with numerous titles that promise to please, tutor, and edify readers.
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How to pocket steadfast that your publication concept is the next best seller
Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show – Maker Faire edition
Here’s the second episode of our favorite new show, Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show . In this installment, the super-awesome Sylvia explores this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area (and does projects she learned at the Faire!)
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Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show – Maker Faire edition
The Entangled Light Emitting Diode Wasn’t Created by Dr. Frankenstein [Computing]
The Entangled Light Emitting Diode Wasn’t Created by Dr. Frankenstein [Computing] I don’t know when optical quantum computers are going to arrive, but I sure hope they look like this crazy Toshiba visualization of an Entangled Light Emitting Diode
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The Entangled Light Emitting Diode Wasn’t Created by Dr. Frankenstein [Computing]
Uni/bicycle converts from one wheel to two
Found in the MAKE Flickr Pool : This sweet whip by Peter Wagner of Davis, CA, packs an unaltered unicycle for the back wheel and seat, with a bolt-on front wheel if you need two. Famous Davis mayor, conservationist, artist and all-around thoughtful person, dear Julie Partansky (a twin like Myself!) gave me her old unicycle. Which in 2000 I adapted into being able to convert back and forth from unicycle to mini Hi Wheel Safety Bicycle! 2 bolts and a quick release will do it! 2 minutes, tops..
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Uni/bicycle converts from one wheel to two
Hard-cover Review for Swoon: How Societies Judge to Falter or Advance
Coming on foul after the sensation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond’s modern earmark, Collapse: How Societies Pick out to Abandon or Succeed is a tome of intriguing perceptiveness to the other side of the coin. While Guns, Germs and Steel examined how some societies thrived, in arrears to their individual geographic and environmental endowments, this engage examines why primitive societies have collapsed so usually in the close by, in participation with a view the unvarying reasons. To brook this argument, the book delves into a breed of gone civilizations, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest, the Maya and the Viking colonies of Greenland to decorate that collapse of a fellowship is no respecter of geography.
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Hard-cover Review for Swoon: How Societies Judge to Falter or Advance
Apple MacBook Spring 2010 Review
We have the iPhone, the iPad and the iPod – with all these little Apple gadgets taking America and the world by storm, they sometimes eclipse that other product line in the Apple family: the MacBook. With summer well under way, though, and most people all set in the entertainment gadget arena, it may be a good time as any to start thinking about the best laptop to take back to school in the fall. Apple released the MacBook Spring 2010 last May, and CNET’s Dan Ackerman has his take on the machine
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Apple MacBook Spring 2010 Review
Al Linke’s DIY Magic Mirror first appeared on our radar back in 2008, when Al posted a classic Instructable describing the project, which went on to win the Tech Grand Prize in our 2008 DIY Halloween Contest . Al’s Magic Mirror features a Sleeping-Beauty style floating, talking face in a gilt-framed mirror with an amazingly wide variety of integrated and integrable functions–breathalyzer, weather forecast, stock tracking, X-10 lighting control, doorbell input with camera feed, Picasa-based slideshow, various themed personalities, etc., etc.
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DIY Magic Mirror kits
iPad stand made from a Panavise & Sugru
Kent Barnes made this wonderfully clever and elegant iPad stand using the suction attachment of a Garmin GPS, then molded Sugru around it to make it compatible with the base from a Panavise. That plus a bluetooth keyboard makes for a cute little desktop! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in hacks | Digg this!
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iPad stand made from a Panavise & Sugru
June 12, 2010
In the Maker Shed: EX-150 Electronic Experiment kit
Great for learning electronics and circuit design! The Gakken EX System is a series of educational electronics kits produced in the late 1970s. The kits use “denshi blocks” (also known as electronic blocks) to allow electronics experiments to be performed easily and safely
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In the Maker Shed: EX-150 Electronic Experiment kit
How to do 3D-sketching using modeling clay
The folks at Kolb Technology put together this series of tutorial videos (second part here ) to show what goes into making models using their modeling clay. Spoiler: it’s a lot of tedious molding and scraping, followed by more molding and scraping. [via core77 ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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Recycling plastic bags into plastic blocks?
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool : Michael Colombo has been experimenting with recycling plastic bags , and forming them into children’s blocks. The process, as documented in this Instructable , is to to melt the plastic in an oil bath at low heat, which causes the bags to disintegrate into goo.
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Recycling plastic bags into plastic blocks?
iPad Security Breach: Gawker Media in Another Apple Issue!
What is it with Gawker and legal scruples involving Apple? After going through that whole issue of unofficially launching the latest Apple iPhone — through Gizmodo, one of its weblogs — before Apple itself was ready to do an unveiling, it is now part of an FBI investigation regarding a security breach, this time with the Apple iPad, as shared in a previous post
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Rock Band 3 to offer MIDI input – custom controllers anyone?
We don’t usually cover much in the way of gaming news here, but my brother Kyle sent this item my way, noting the potential DIY aspect – Thanks to Rock Band 3′s new Pro mode for guitar, drums and, yes, keyboard, every single note on the game’s song list will be tracked. The good news for actual musicians? If you already have a MIDI keyboard or MIDI drum set, you can opt for the Rock Band 3 MIDI Pro Adapter Box
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Rock Band 3 to offer MIDI input – custom controllers anyone?
June 11, 2010
Embracing decay at Sid’s Machine Shop
Via Dinosaurs and Robots come these amazing pictures of a derelict machine shop in the mountains of North Carolina. “No one on the mountain can remember it being open” says the Mondo-Blogo author who snapped the pics. It looked like, one day possibly in the 1960s or 70s, that they just up and closed without even clearing off their desks
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Embracing decay at Sid’s Machine Shop
Chris Schaie’s mechanical irises for sale
When I first saw Chris’s gorgeous brass-and-wood irising door peephole mechanism in the ShopBot booth at Maker Faire, I knew it was something special: A beautiful piece of machinery, designed and built solely for the pleasure of operating and observing its operation. When Chris contacted us wanting to sell them in Makers Market , naturally I was excited, but I was also a bit skeptical
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Chris Schaie’s mechanical irises for sale
Control an Arduino project using an infrared remote
Benjamin Eckel from Gumbolabs wanted to be able to decode the signals from his universal remote, so he hooked an infrared receiver up to his Arduino and created this Radioshack infrared receiver . Could be just the thing for creating that remote-controlled robot! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
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Control an Arduino project using an infrared remote