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Aug 25, 2008 at 11:45:10 PM
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If you've got a spare Serial-ATA drive lying around, connect it quickly to your USB-enabled PC with this simple dock. Capable of connecting laptop or desktop SATA drives, just drop it in place and you're good to go. Price: $49.99
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Aug 25, 2008 at 11:39:51 PM
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Now you can start a car with a dead battery the gentleman's way using the Closed-Hood Car Jump Starter. Exactly as the name implies you can start a car with nary a glance under the hood. Price: $19.99
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Aug 20, 2008 at 09:26:24 PM
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Here's a light-up bike vest that lets people behind you know how fast you're going. It uses electro-luminescent wire in the shape of the numbers to give a nixie-tube-esque appearance. Via Ladyada.
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LED turn signal bike jacket tutorial
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Aug 20, 2008 at 09:19:36 PM with comment: Great HOW-TO videos. |
Everybody likes a good top 10 list, including all of us at MAKE. I asked everyone what his or her favorite MAKE videos were, and compiled a list. So without further ado, I present the Make Magazine Top 10 How-To Videos. [in no particular order]
10: Make a Tabletop Biosphere
Read more about making your own Tabletop Biosphere
9: Make a pocket sized LED cube
Make your own Pocket sized LED Cube
8: Build a Jam Jar Jet
Learn how to make your own Jam Jar Jet
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Aug 19, 2008 at 09:47:53 PM
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360 picture of the Adams house by Dick Termes via Land-o-links.
Reflecting Back is a 17" diameter sphere that was painted in 1989. As Deadwood is very close to where Termes lives much of this painting was done on the spot in the Adams House. This house is now owned by the city of Deadwood South Dakota. This is a wonderful spherical painting to show the six point perspective which Termes is known for. The ghost image of Mr. Adams is shown looking in the window and Mary Adams is standing in the dining room. Termes' image shows in the two mirrors. It is as though you are standing in the living room and turning in a circle seeing everything around you as well as above and below you. This piece is owned by the artist Dick Termes.
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Aug 19, 2008 at 09:45:16 PM
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Flickr user Nebarnix posted an awesome gallery of high-speed photo eye-candy -
High speed photography. If anyone has any requests I'd be happy to blow it up for you!- High-speed photography on Flickr [via NOTCOT]Most of these photos are taken with a special flash unit that uses a high voltage arc in air as the light source. The flash of light lasts only 500 nanoseconds!
High-Speed Photography Kit Version 4
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Aug 19, 2008 at 09:44:50 PM
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Bill Beaty documents his recipe for levitating neodymium magnets using two rotating coppers tubes. Note: The aptly named "Fantastically Dangerous Mechanical MagLev" could indeed seriously injure a person (you'll notice Bill uses a clear plastic covering over the tubes to prevent the aforementioned nastiness) -
While working on science museum exhibits in 1990 I came up with the above idea: it is known that a spinning metal disk will lift and fling a strong magnet. Therefore, metal rods with opposite spin will lift a magnet but WON'T fling it sideways. It works! I used "sched-80" heavy wall copper tubes about 1-3/8" diameter, 12" long, with 1/4" wall thickness. I hammered aluminum plugs into the tubes, carved shaft-tips with a lathe, built endblocks and bearings, spun them with an AC/DC motor, and managed to levitate a stack of two 3/4" diameter neodymium magnets. The spinning tubes must move at about 5000 RPM before the magnet starts floating.- All-mechanical magnetic levitation with neodymium supermagnets [via Hacked Gadgets] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this!
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Aug 19, 2008 at 09:26:49 PM with comment: WOW! 140000 playing cards. But the biggest surprise is my project under "More" ;) |
Brian Berg spent 20 days recreating Beijing's Olympic Village using over 140,000 playing cards.
(and apparently didn't sneeze once during construction)
[via Gizmodo]
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Playing Card Top Hat
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Aug 13, 2008 at 11:21:53 AM
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Retro-tech artist Datamancer has just finished this amazing "Archbishop" Gothic PC cabinet, keyboard, and graphics tablet/pointing device (a Wacom tablet is housed inside of a tooled leather antique book). The PC was built for a Steampunk Art show in Bridgehampton, NY. The show opens next week. You can find out more about it here.
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