Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service: Coastal Cleanup in NYC #MLKDay @mlkday
If you’re free this morning from 10-1pm, this is a great opportunity to volunteer at Idlewild Park! From NYC Parks: Volunteer with the Stewardship Team at Idlewild Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Day!...
View ArticleHow to Register a Drone: A guide from Wired #drone #droneday
Super handy article from Wired: Drones have become one of the hottest new technologies, part toy, part tool—they were one of the hottest holiday gifts this year, and garnered plenty of coverage at...
View ArticleMartin Luther King, Jr.’s “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” #MLKDay @mlkday
From Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” via The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford: And another reason I’m happy to live in this period...
View ArticleAn Intel powered Wireless Multi-tool for the IoT: Part 1 #IoT
Via DesignSpark. We were challenged by RS Components and Intel to see how we could put Intel technologies to use in underpinning the delivery of the Internet of Things. Of course, there are so many...
View ArticleGoogle Hired A Camel For Desert Street View
Google street view reaches as far as the Liwa Oasis with the help of a camel named Raffia. via CNN It’s given us robot cars and internet-enabled glasses — but when it came to creating a “Street View”...
View ArticleGermany’s 62-Mile Bike Autobahn Connects 10 Cities
What an incredible idea that’s good for both Germans and their natural environment! From FastCoExist. Germany, the country famous for its speed-limit free stretches of Autobahn, is building car-free...
View ArticleMadeleine the robot tamer #Robotics
Via Pier 9 on Vimeo. During her residency at Pier 9, Madeline Gannon developed a project called Quipt – a gesture-based control software that gives industrial robots basic spatial behaviors for...
View ArticleMy fiancé wanted a headboard for our bed. I built this over the weekend.
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View ArticleWhy Life on Earth Can Thank Its Lucky Stars for Jupiter and Saturn
via space.com Without Jupiter and Saturn orbiting out past Earth, life may not have been able to gain a foothold on our planet, new simulations suggest. The two gas giants likely helped stabilize the...
View ArticleLightsaber Replica with Glowing Crystal
If you’re a fan of Star Wars, chances are good that you’ve wanted to own a lightsaber. You can always go the Jedi route and build your own, but if you’d rather order a ready-made version, you can turn...
View ArticleA History of Sound From the Big Bang to the Cellphone #MusicMonday
A short, fun history of noise from TheAtlantic. Notably missing: your clog dancing upstairs neighbor. It can sometimes feel like the world is very noisy—from planes arcing loudly through the sky to...
View ArticleA peek inside a Chinese factory that makes smartphones #Manufacturing Monday
Neat video showing a smartphone assembly line in China. Found via the Hacked Gadgets Forum.
View ArticleBought a Letterpress from the 1940's made some cards
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View ArticleTurning a single 2x4 into a giant Lego Man (10x scale)
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View ArticleCustom hexagon fish tank stand (x-post /r/woodworking)
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View ArticleMICKEYPHON is an interactive audiovisual kinetic sculpture #MusicMonday
From ◥ panGenerator on Vimeo via Create Digital Music: MICKEYPHON (pl: MIKIFON) is an interactive audiovisual kinetic sculpture, inspired by Mickey Mouse, created for Disney. MICKEYPHON listens to the...
View ArticleInfosys Awarding $375K in Prizes to Makers Making a Difference
Have an interesting or innovative solution for real-world issues or a knack for turning technology into something that makes life easier? Then perhaps Infosys Foundation USA’s Infy Maker Contest is for...
View ArticleI hear future wives like shiny things so I decided to build her a shiny thing.
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Adafruit Daily is the totally optional, totally customizable, totally awesome Adafruit Newsletter. We offer five different categories and will be adding more down the line. View the site here and...
View ArticlePhysicists Quest For Glueballs
The quest for glueballs via SciShow The quantum world is weird. Today we’re looking at a strange particle called a glueball that contains no matter…they’re made of pure force!
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