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Olympus BioScapes competition winners , amazing photos!
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Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland...
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LHC tweets it's first circulating beam of 2009 , good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos here ...
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As a member of Hack Pittsburgh, our local hackerspace, one thing I've wanted to know if anyone else is there before I make the trek over. Well, so did Andy Leer and Marty McGuire, so they decided to build a shop presence notification system . They reasoned that they could measure the ...
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Bruce Heran made this prototyping board for his tube projects. He writes:
This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test "board." I do a lot of work with tubes and love ...
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By way of Andrew Q Righter of HacDC comes word of this free PDF from Texas Instruments, a 41-page "cookbook" of circuit designs and application notes for TI's LED-related components. [Thanks, Andrew!]
LED Reference Design Cookbook [PDF]
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Instructables user peterdr has put together a really excellent tutorial on how to build his CT-1 open-source hardware intervalometer for Canon and Nikon digital cameras. There's more info about the project at his personal website , and a parts kit is for sale on Amazon.com .
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My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting . The Boston Globe covered the preparations:
The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party.
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Paper craft meets LEGO with MUJI's quad hole punch and kits , available November 27th at MUJI Japan. [via CRAFT ]
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There's a funny thing about dads' toys. Very often, kids borrow dad's supposedly grown-up toys and dad plays with toys designed for a much younger demographic. With that in mind, we present the Gifts for Dads list, filled with stuff that may appeal to more than one generation in your ...
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Dutch designer Michiel Cornelissen sells these cruciform screwdrivers , which are laser-sintered stainless steel. There's a flat-blade, a Phillips head, and an IKEA-sized hex bit. [via Dude Craft ]
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One hour of PCB routing with EAGLE , compressed to seven minutes, over at adafruit.
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NEC announced what could be an early, real-life version of the universal translator - NEC said the Tele Scouter was intended to be a business tool that could aid sales staff who would have information about a client's buying history beamed into their eye during a conversation.
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DJTechTools' upcoming solder-free MIDI controller kit provides users
with 16 arcade button triggers + LEDs and will
apparently be released as an open source product at launch - • Release Date: November 30th • Price: Aprox $125 for the Kit + ...
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Troy Davis created some very awesome recreations of Devo's signature Energy Domes . Beginning with a tiered stack of fiberboard for the mold, through to vacuum forming, paint job, and padding - a thorough explanation can be found in his project pictorial . sweet.
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Simple robot from your parts bin that avoids obstacles. Thanks go to Jerome Demers for the original article in MAKE, Volume 12 .
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Simple robot from your parts bin that avoids obstacles.
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Check out this homebrew accelerometer controlled USB gamepad
using a PIC18F2550 from Starlino. You'll find code and
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The Mystery Box kit is a clever puzzle box made by our very own John Park, host of Make: television . Here is how it works: first you assemble the laser-cut wooden box, placing a treasure inside. Next, you present the Mystery Box and its hidden contents to a friend, loved one, or enemy. Ask ...
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Popsci's Mike Haney liked our Under $20 Gift Guide so much, he raised us another five, adding additional under $20 gifts from the Maker Shed. Thanks, Mike! We love you guys, too.
[And in the spirit of Phil's guide, where he included an item he couldn't resist over $20, Mike includes the ...
