Via io9 , Arizona State University has assembled the highest-resolution Mars map to date , the images drawn from 21,000 pix shot by the Mars Odyssey orbiter’s THEMIS camera. The maps show Mars as if sliced from a globe, unwrapped and flattened out on a table. Nearly 21,000 individual images have been smoothed, blended, fitted together and cartographically controlled to make a giant mosaic that web viewers can zoom into and scroll around
Young maker Sasha shows us how to assemble the solar frightened grasshopper kit from the Maker Shed in this, another kid-made video on the MAKE ‘tubes.
Well, like they say – If you wanna make some noise, you’ll have to get you’re hands wet (k, they never say that). Ion Furjanic’s Electric Tea 1.0 (Peace Games) incorporates “porcelain bowls, metal orbs, speaker wire, water, and the conductive power of the human body” into an unusual interface for music. Certainly seems a pleasant way to trigger a sample … as long as the water’s freshened up every now and then :/ Check out more of Ion’s work over at Lava Jumper Studios .
Let’s Review the Best Review Websites Series: TechSpot.com
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Mozilla Firefox’s Tab Candy Makes for a Sweet Browsing Experience
This writer immediately identified with Aza Raskin’s opening sequence in the video embedded on his blog post on what will ultimately become my new best friend – Mozilla Firefox’s Tab Candy. And I am practically sure that I am not the only one
Nexus One/Arduino SmallSat satellite test launch video
photo: jurvetson Matthew Reyes sent word that the RocketMavericks launch event on Saturday in Nevada’s Black Rock desert was a resounding success. Traveling 28K feet aboard James Dougherty’s Intimidator-5 rocket was a payload consisting of a Nexus One/Arduino SmallSat. Matthew and his cohorts Chris Boshuizen & Will Marshall are championing the use of smartphone components to lower the cost of deploying a satellite and expect it to become even more affordable with every revision
Mobiola Headset iPhone App Lets You Record Skype Calls [IphoneApps]
Mobiola Headset iPhone App Lets You Record Skype Calls [IphoneApps] The Mobiola Headset app for the iPhone offers a simple and easy option to record VoIP calls. It turns your iPhone into a mobile headset for your desktop PC too
Inspired by our coverage here on MAKE of flower-pot cooker/smokers, Nigel Vezeau (Ottawa, Canada) created this lovely “Little Blue Egg, a Big Green Egg knockoff. He used two big flower pots, an Ikea table, and a few other scrounged bits and pieces. About six months ago I was at a friend’s place jamming, hanging out, generally having a good time
Building the first Open Source (inexpensive) Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope (STM)
When people ask “what’s next” for Open Source Hardware, I think projects like this will be the direction some of the makers will head – Check out Sacha De’Angeli’s project, the first open source STM – Building the first Open Source (inexpensive) Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope (STM) – With just enough electronics knowledge to be dangerous and a lot of helpful friends, I embarked on the design and build of an arduino-controlled, affordable STM with the intention of releasing the hardware design, firmware, and software via open source licensing. The goal of this project is to address the following two problems in the world of STM: Problem 1: The Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope, capable of resolving individual atoms, is so elegant a device that it won the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics
I went down to the LA Convention Center yesterday for the first day of SIGGRAPH, the annual computer graphics convention. Once of the coolest things I saw in the Emerging Technologies area was this tactile display for light and shadow called Touch Light Through the Leaves.
Voronoi mapping makes pretty, efficient circuit boards
[The image above is the same board produced using Visolate, regular routing, and PCB etching] Here’s a neat PCB routing tool, called Visolate , that uses Voronoi diagrams to minimize the number of tool cuts that are needed to cut out a circuit board. As long as you aren’t depending on specific trace dimensions to make your circuit work, it looks like it makes really pretty boards! [via metalab ] Cutting the Voronoi boundaries has both advantages and disadvantages. Compared with boundary tracing, the Voronoi method produces only one cut instead of two to separate traces
Is A SoyChlor Plant Massacre Animals, People, And Children In Jefferson Iowa?
On October all about 250 residents of Jefferson, Iowa, represented alongside attorneys from LaMarca & Landry, P.C., filed suitable against West Important Cooperative in the Iowa Precinct Court fitting for Greene County. The parties to this lawsuit include homeowners, proprietorship owners and persons who duty at nearby places of profession, such as MicroSoy, Electrolux and American Concrete. The causes of vim classify irritant, laxness, trespass, res ipsa loquitur, and iron-fisted liability for the treatment of carrying on an abnormally precarious activity
Randy Sarafan writes: This Simple Bot was inspired by a work by artist James Rouvelle called Colony in which a bunch odd shaped ovals self-propel around their environment. It is my understanding that his bots were made by placing a vibrating motor freely inside of a Styrofoam ball that was then coated to give it an irregular shape
Here’s a small portion of the fun and unusual things you’ll find at Maker Faire Detroit . A Different Kind of Hybrid If I said that there was guy who built a hybrid windmobile coming to Maker Faire Detroit, you’d have every reason to expect that he’d designed a futuristic car. You’d be right, except that the vehicle was built four decades ago and appeared on the cover of Popular Science in 1976.
YouTube user magx1′s CO2 laser looks like it’s taking over his living room… “Look Mom; I Lased my Breath” … Seriously, though – by exhaling into my ‘supply’ balloon, I was able to get pretty good results considering! Unlike a ‘proper’ laser mix of CO2, N2, and He; the ‘breath’ trick appears to have a much narrower pressure range over which lasing will occur.
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And we’re back with our eighth installment of Your Comments . Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online , our Facebook page, and Twitter . Simon suggests assembling your own DIY Retro kids tool sets : The earliest memory of tinkering I have is taking apart an old telephone with a butter knife when I was very little
It’s called the OpenBTS Projec t, and pundits are claiming it could reduce user costs to $2/month in the developing world. OpenBTS is an open-source Unix application that uses the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to present a GSM air interface (“Um”) to standard GSM handset and uses the Asterisk® software PBX to connect calls.
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Most of us will have heard it time and again: misery loves company. And it seems that Apple is going down that route in as far as “ AntennaGate ” and the so-called “death grip” is concerned; it is looping in other phones into the circle, announcing that, hey, this issue is not just confined to the Apple iPhone. And so it goes – the smart phone wars become death grip wars, as Apple tries to do as much damage control (assuming that is still possible at this point) as it could in as far as the reputation of the iPhone is concerned – by bringing up the same issue with other similar devices.