Over at the 405th, user Moz has modified his NERF rifle to fit right in
to the Halo universe. Fortunately, he posted a few photos of the process
so you can see how everything got hacked and modified and painted for
the final result. He even put up a nice little video to show how it
works. Nice one! …
By: fungus amungus
Ben Krasnow built a machine that makes liquid nitrogen for under $500.
It’s made with many parts he bought off of eBay and can generate a liter
a day of the stuff at a cost of $1.15 per liter. Check out the link for
more info. The first video is from this year’s Maker Faire and the
second shows t…
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LiveScience is reporting that playing video games before bed can help
gamers control their dreams. This can be helpful for those who have
troublesome dreams. "If you’re spending hours a day in a
virtual reality, if nothing else it’s practice," said Jayne
Gackenbach, a psychologist at…
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When using a small camera to shoot some video it’s easy to fumble with
it as you try and move the camera around. With a solid grip that screws
in to the bottom of the camera it’s easier to hold and you get better
footage. And if you’re going to be making a grip for a camera you might
as well make it…
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The EyeSeeCam is a head-mounted device developed at the University of
Munich Hospital that uses four cameras to record what your eyes are
looking at. Two cameras are used to track your eyes, one records what
your head is pointed at, and the last one uses the data from the first
two cameras to record…
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Inhabitat is in the middle of its Spring Greening Competition and now
has a list of finalists up that can be voted on. There are lots of great
ideas for inspiration here. I especially liked the pendant lamp made
from poptabs and the inner tube bookshelf (big surprise, I know).
Another design that lo…
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The Roll It is an experimental house design that was developed at the
University of Karlsruhe. To use the house in a different way, just walk
along the inside to roll it to create a new up and down. There’s a bed,
an exercise area, and even a kitchen with a sink. I really wish I could
find an explan…
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A looping waterslide, The Scorpion’s Tail, will be opening
up in Wisconsin at Noah’s Ark Water Park this summer. You slide
down, around the loop, and out through the bottom 9 to 14 seconds later.
Just look at how happy the guy looks in the rendering! This isn’t the
first looping waterslide in Ame…
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Over at Make: Blog, George Hart shows that if you put a challenge out
there, no matter how crazy, someone might just do it. So 15 years after
he made some plans for a theoretical sphere made with 480 wooden pieces
and 960 connections, someone actually built it. In this case it was
Thomas Guethner of…
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These flash drives by Shu-Chun Hsiao are serious. The drives are encased
in concrete and are embossed with the weight of each one, a number that
correlates with the flash drive’s capacity. I love the idea, but 256g
sticking out the front of my desktop is just going to destroy itself.
P.S. This wou…
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Seed bombs are little balls of clay, compost, and seeds that you can
toss into a vacant lot to try and get some new plants to grow. It’s a
guerrilla gardening technique and you can see how to make one here . If
you just want to pick one up and live in San Francisco you can now buy
them from a vendin…
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A prisoner in the UK wanted to ink some skin so badly he made a tattoo
machine from a Sony PlayStation. He did it by attaching a motor from the
PlayStation to a sharpened ballpoint pen. It must’ve worked because he
gave tattoos to others before he was caught it was taken away. Sony
PainStation v…
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Within the next couple weeks we will be starting a USB Contest! The
rules are that the entry needs to involve USB in some way. It can be
powered via USB, transfer data via USB, or even provide power by USB. As
long as there is some USB connection being used, it can be entered. So
keep that in m…
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After posting about the 50 papercraft robots I couldn’t help but print
out the robot dog illusion and make it. After all, it’s a robot dog
version of the dragon illusion that I’ve been meaning to make for years
now (and still haven’t). It only takes a few minutes to put together so
check it out. …
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Ben Fleskes built this Pac-Man arcade cabinet entirely out of LEGO and
put in a 19" monitor so that he could play 48 different games on
it. That reminds me, I need to bump up that MAME project that’s in my
queue. It’s been there too long. Lego arcade machine
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What better way to start a marriage than an AT-AT cake that celebrates
the Battle of Hoth? Teresa Ulrich made this one for her friend,
Rebecca Dudeiros, and the results are great. It also comes with
Ewok cupcakes. Wait a minute… Ewoks weren’t at the Battle of Hoth!
Awesome Star Wars Wedding C…
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Planes use a massive amount of fuel to move passengers and cargo around
the world. A new design from an MIT team could cut this fuel usage by
70%. This is great news and would make flights cheaper and pump out a
lot less carbon. The bad news is that air traffic is expected to double
in the next 30 y…
By: fungus amungus
Planes use a massive amount of fuel to move passengers and cargo around
the world. A new design from an MIT team could cut this fuel usage by
70%. This is great news and would make flights cheaper and pump out a
lot less carbon. The bad news is that air traffic is expected to double
in the next 30 y…
By: fungus amungus
Globes are meant to represent entire planets, but what if the world you
want to show on them is actually much smaller? Then you can make a Local
Globe. Take a map and apply the Photoshop filter Flexify to it and you
can make a globe of your own! All right, I’m totally gonna do this and I
know exactl…
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Anthony Le is such a fan of Iron Man that he built his own War Machine
outfit. Based on concept sketches from before Iron Man 2 hit theaters,
Le’s suit has a motorized faceplate that flips up and down and a
spinning Gatling gun on his shoulder. It’s an amazing build and took Le
a month to make at a …
By: fungus amungus
The Tweet-a-Watt is a cool hack that was made by Adafruit (Limor Fried
and Phillip Torrone). It would tweet your energy usage from one outlet
so you could be more aware of how much juice you’re pulling through the
lines. Now you can connect it with Google’s Powermeter and get some nice
graphs of you…
By: fungus amungus
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