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Jar lamp makes for a nice present
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool: Ben Light made these jar lamps as presents for his family's DIY holiday gift exchange. To keep the project simple, most of the pieces are readymade, except for the hand-turned wooden base. I want one! More:
Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows? John Graham-Cumming, of Geek Atlas fame, has posted a piece to answer the perennial question "Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows?" (the old-school in-series non-LED variety). And he shows ye ol' "binary chop" technique for quickly rooting out the dead bulb. Why do Christmas lights all go out when one bulb blows? (and how to find the broken one) Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Holiday projects | Digg this!German university has awesome slides of maximum efficiency
These giant parabolic slides, or Parabelrutsche are located in the Mathematik/Informatik building of the Technical University of Munich, Garching campus. The preferred method for riding them appears to be on boring carpet squares, however a quick search shows that more daring methods have also been tried. [thanks, Grace!] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Digg this!Aquaponics project at New York middle schoolJoseph Karb, a teacher at Springville Middle School, wrote to me about an aquaponics enrichment project he is working on with his students.
Springville Middle School Tilapia Project Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Education | Digg this! And now, a holiday greeting from our quadrocopter overlords
This impressive demonstration is by researchers at the Flying Machine Arena, part of the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zürich. They're also involved in more serious flying robotic research, such as in the demonstration by Angela Schöllig:
[via Engadget] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Flying | Digg this!Maker Pioneers: Kurt Fleischer
Here is the latest in our Make: Shorts video series, covering "Maker Pioneers," inventors, entrepreneurs, makers, who are dreaming up clever solutions to today's energy and environmental problems. In this episode, we meet Kurt Fleischer. Kurt is a senior research scientist at Pixar, where he worked on building filmmaking software and directly on such films as Cars and WALL-E, before becoming a member of their research team. On his off time, he likes to apply his engineering skills to work on projects with his daughter, Lena, such as the Water Totter seen in this video. He used this project, which turns an old-style seesaw into a water pump, as an opportunity to teach Lena about concepts in engineering, conservation, energy generation, and a few life lessons. Have you checked out our Green Projects Contest site yet? Lots of clever, fun projects and ideas have been submitted. Vote for the ones you like. Put up your own projects, grab your "tag," and spread it across the interwebs. Get your social network to vote for your projects. Tag Your Green! Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Green | Digg this!Nexus S soft-touch mod
Are you sick of slick black plastic enclosures that collect fingerprints and smudge marks? Sure, you could go out and buy a case for your mobile, but that just adds more bulk to something you're ultimately going to stuff into a pocket. This DIY case mod from xda-developers member mhaedo remedies the fingerprint collector issue with a couple of coats of Plasti Dip. Adding only a thin layer of gripy material to the surface of the battery cover eliminates the smudges and enhances the overall look and feel of the device. [via theGadgets] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Mobile | Digg this!21st century Christmas gift making My son Blake and I always try to make something to give our family for Christmas. In the late '90s, we were quite proud of the packing/box art (inset) we made for some handmade (not by us) ornaments we gave out. We found one of these boxes in the attic this year and it looks rather shabby next to this year's presents: the two plastic 3D-printed figures, one freestanding and one tree ornament, that Blake rendered in 3D and then had printed at Shapeways. The character is named Vido and he's a little wizard dude that appeared to Blake in a dream about five years ago. Vido has already been in CRAFT Volume 02, in an article that I did on making your own stamps out of art gum erasers. I still use the stamp. Vido has also appeared in Christmas cards of ours over the years, so we're both tickled to see him come to life in three-dimensions. It's really easy to upload the 3D (STL) files to Shapeways and it's not terribly expensive, either. They cost about $20 each. You can see Blake's Shapeway's page on the link below.
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