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NYC big wheel race Saturday
With prizes for most original vehicle and best costume, I'm wishing I had heard about the NYC big wheel race a bit sooner...
Bring your big wheel, trike, skateboard, velocipede, or handmade contraption on wheels along with your superhero costume to race down the Great Hill in Central Park against the greatest front and rear axelers.
If you do manage to get a vehicle together, wear a helmet!
2nd annual NYC Great Big Wheel Race
Saturday, October 10, 3-5:30pm
Central Park Drive, 104th St east side
Posted by Becky Stern | 6:00 PM in Events, Transportation | | Discuss (0)
Remaking PBS as a true educational network
Over on O'Reilly Radar, MAKE editor and publisher Dale Dougherty has a thought-provoking piece on remaking public broadcasting: Imagine a broadcast network in America that was dedicated to education, where the best educators had the opportunity to produce its programming,...
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Driven to tears by sand painting
Sand painting in front of a large audience and what looks like American Idol-style judging? Who knew? Really fascinating to watch. And amazing to see that audience members are driven to tears by the experience. There are a whole...
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Cash awards for amateur scientific apparatus designs
In an effort to advance the cause of citizen science, Michael Wood is offering a total of $400 in prize money to anyone who can produce reliable, low-cost (<$100US) DIY scientific apparatus capable of meeting one of four design objectives:
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1W TV-B-Gone in a flashlight
Here's the translation of a page about a DIY TV-B-Gone inside a flashlight/torch, looks great! [via adafruit]
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72-hr Microchip Technology giveaway beta - GO!
Beginning at noon Pacific time today, October 9, and closing at noon Pacific time Monday, October 12, we will be accepting comments, below, describing the Halloween-y use (or uses) to which you would put the prize bundle consisting of...
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How-To: Copy stand on the cheap
Check out the tutorial for this easy and cheap copy stand.
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Balcony? What balcony? I don't see a balcony...
We don't see many transforming-house mods around here, and its a shame. Anyone ever try making something like this?
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Software "auralization"
Finnish computer science doctoral candidate Cessu created a hack to make music from (dramatically slowed) bit-level operations in his CPU. A similar technique called "software visualization" is more commonly used to clarify the operation of complex algorithms for educational and analytical purposes, but Cessu seems to be the first person to try it with sound. [via Hack a Day]
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How-To: Cut header pins
Ladyada shows us how to cut header pins (both male and female) with a set of diagonal flush clippers.
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How-To: Autonomous mobile pumpkin (AMP)
OK, so I made up that name. Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories calls it a "Rovin' Pumpkin," which is a perfectly respectable moniker. But it's never going to score a juicy government defense contract for this technology, the military applications of which, I should think, are obvious. [Thanks, Becky!]
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Construction equipment ballet
Anne Troake is a choreographer and filmmaker from Newfoundland. Her film Pretty Big Dig is, IMHO, the best of the many "dancing heavy machinery" videos I've seen on YouTube.
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Jeri Ellsworth - Cyborg
Our pal Jeri Ellsworth got to don the telepresence rig for the Anybots robot. Cool stuff. My favorite part of the vid is this exchange: Jeri: "I'm scared to crash it" Anybots' Trevor Blackwell: "You should be." Now that's...
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Weekend Project: Junk parts pecan crusher
Check out an old-school pecan crusher made out of junk parts found in a man-cave. Thanks to Terry Dove for this nutty project. To download The Junk Parts Pecan Crusher video click here and subscribe in iTunes....
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Motorola Blur ported to G1
Motorola's new Android UI has been ported to the HTC G1. The accompanying video of the unofficial build shows off many of the user enhancements shipping with the newer Motorola Android based phones.
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Make: Projects - Pages of a forbidden tome
They could be from The Necronomicon, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, or simply Poe's "quaint and curious volume," but everybody needs at least a few tattered leaves of ancient mind-blasting arcanum lying around to impress guests. Especially around Halloween.
This tutorial presents an easy method for producing weathered "antiqued" paper without much expense. The trick of soaking white paper in coffee or tea to give it an old, yellowed look is very familiar, but the process for selectively burning the edges of the paper is my own invention. A simple and safe chemical treatment is used to selectively burn the page, only where it has been applied, upon mild heat treatment.
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RepRap Version II "Mendel" prints its first 3D parts
The newest RepRap, RepRap Version II "Mendel", will be released very shortly. Here is a video of it working. It is both bigger and smaller than RepRap Version I "Darwin": it can make bigger things, but the machine itself is physically much smaller.
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You say "looks like somebody has too much time on their hands"
You say "looks like somebody has too much time on their hands"... Previously: Your time vs Jason's time... Happy Friday, what are making this weekend?...
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Winners of the Photojojo! book giveaway
Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway to win a copy of the new book, Photojojo! Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas by Amit Gupta with Kelly Jensen. Congratulations to our three winners: Tom from London, Alan...
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