Over on DIY Photography, photographer and artist William van der Steen, has a nice tutorial on creating sliced fruit photos. [Thanks, Udi!]
Create Wonderful Sliced Fruit Images
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How-To: Photograph "exploded" fruit
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 11:00pm MDT
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@ SXSW: Bug Labs says content will drive open-source hardware
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 10:00pm MDT
SXSW: Bug Labs Says Content Will Drive Open-Source Hardware - Epicenter @ Wired.com...The iPhone is a direct descendant of the Model T Ford -- you can get one in any color you want, so long as it's black (or white). That's the viewpoint of Peter Semmelhack, founder and CEO of Bug Labs, whose modular, open-source hardware company aims to fix that shortcoming by making it easier for people and companies to create their own electronics products using a Linux processor module, a camera module, a touchscreen LCD module and so on.
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DIY organic LEDs
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 7:00pm MDT
This University of Wisconsin-Madison how-to describes the process of making OLEDs. If anyone follows this tutorial and creates some OLEDs, send us a link, we'd love to hear more! [via openMaterials via Erik DeBruijn]
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Handcar Regatta vehicles get the art treatment
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 6:15pm MDT
Nice to see our friends who are involved in the Handcar Regatta, namely those behind the Screaming Vortex (above) and the Hennepin Crawler, get a little high-brow attention. They, along with some other awesome Regatta rigs, are on display at the University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University, in Rohnert Park, CA until March 4th.
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Garage biohacking in Silicon Valley
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 5:00pm MDT
Enclosure: [download]
Rob Carlson, author of Biology is Technology: The promise, perils, and new business of engineering life, was recently in the Bay Area to deliver a talk to the California Assembly Select Committee on Biotechnology. His presentation focused on the role of small businesses and garage hackers in innovating the new bioeconomy. You can see his slides here.
While he was in the area, he visited some folks doing biology hacking in their garages. On his blog, he writes:
I spent most of one Saturday hanging out at a garage biology lab in Silicon Valley. When I walked in the door, I was impressed by the sophistication of the set-up. The main project is screening for anti-cancer compounds (though it wasn't clear to me whether this meant small molecules or biologics), and the people involved have skillzzz and an accumulation of used/surplus equipment to accomplish whatever they want; two clean/cell-culture hoods, two biorobots (one of which is being reverse engineered), incubators, plate readers, and all the other doodads you might need. They aren't messing around. I didn't get into the details of the project, but the combination of equipment, pedigree, and short conversations with the participants told me all I needed to know. That doesn't mean they will be successful, of course, just that I believe they are yet another example of what can be attempted in a garage. This sort of effort is where new jobs, new economic growth, and, most importantly, desperately needed new technologies come from. Garage innovation is at the heart of the way Silicon Valley works, and it is envied around the world.
Garage Biology in Silicon Valley
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DIY photography roundup: camera rigs
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 3:00pm MDT
Want to improve the look of your next photo or video, but don't want to spend big bucks to do it? Well, we've got you covered with these DIY projects, from the MAKE archives:
Maker Workshop PDF - Steadycam
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Make a lab centrifuge out of a salad spinner
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 2:00pm MDT
Forget the laboratory supply store, you can score a ">centrifuge on late-night TV!
I recently visited a lab that had a salad spinner on their lab bench and at first I wondered if they were putting together a salad lunch there but when I took a peek I got a nice surprise. It turns out that the salad spinner was actually a bench top, "minifuge" version of a plate centrifuge.
What a great idea I thought. A cheap, quick-to-build plate centrifuge that also worked pretty well for a quick spin just before PCR. So, we tried to built one in my lab and we loved it so much that we now have one sitting near almost EVERY PCR plate instrument, and have even gifted a couple to others!Thanks, Abizar!
There are lots more science tutorials, lab experiments, and resources available in the Make: Science Room.
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How-To: SNES Super Gameboy line out audio
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 1:00pm MDT
Instructables user Kyle Robinson writes:
The Super gameboy (SGB for short) is Gameboy cartridge player for the Nintendo Entertainment system. Chipmusicians who use LSDJ or Nanoloop can use the SBG to compose on a large screen. Wether its at home with friends, or in a studio environment, the SBG can be a great tool for gameboy composing and today we are going to make it even better.
Check out his how-to for adding an audio line out to the SNES Super Gameboy.
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Lucky Makers drive pots of gold in St. Patrick's Day parade
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:00pm MDT
The folks over at the Milwaukee Makerspace built these fine Pot O' Gold floats to drive in a St. Patrick's Day parade. They don't seem to have build details available, however you can get a good idea of how they were build by looking through the project photos.
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In the Maker Shed: Green Mini Breadboards
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 11:30am MDT
In honor of St. Patrick's Day on Wednesday, might we suggest a lovely Green Mini Breadboard? Half the size of a half-size breadboard, this Mini Breadboard is perfect for tiny projects and for sticking onto the top of Arduino ProtoShields! Normally, we'd encourage you to choose from 5 colors, but today, please consider green!
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- Measures 1.4" x 1.6" (3.5cm x 4.5cm)
- 170 tie points
- Brings good luck to its user
- Fits great on Arduino ProtoShield
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Easy-thread sewing needle
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 11:00am MDT
Image courtesy Photobucket user morganeth.
You know, as long as human beings have been squinting and poking at the tiny eyes of sewing needles, it's pretty amazing that it's taken so long for some clever inventor to address the problem. These spiral eye sewing needles are available direct from their inventor, Pam Turner of Minnesota. I've never used one, but the user feedback I hear echoing through the tubes is uniformly positive. [via Boing and a Boing]
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Cajun Crawler: If Theo Jansen designed a Segway
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 10:00am MDT
This Segway-style transportation device uses famed kinetic artist Theo Jansen's style of bug-like locomtion. I think the rider appears to surf on another creature, perhaps a crayfish?
Cajun Crawler [via @EMSL]
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Featured maker: Nicholas and Felice
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 8:37am MDT
We hit independent Oregonian jewelers Nicholas and Felice's Pi Pendant and Pi Earrings for Pi Day this last Sunday, but, as you can see from these pics, they've got cool handmade jewelry for geeks of all flavors. If you're a chemist, for instance, you might appreciate their Atomic Symbol for Silver Necklace, shown above, either as jewelry or as a gorgeous (and attractively labeled) silver specimen for your elements collection.
And a little something for the ladies (who also happen to be bad-ass electrical engineers): Diode Symbol Sterling Silver Earrings
And, finally, for just about anyone who's geeky enough to be operating the computer required to read this blog in the first place (and who, you know, has pierced ears), these awesome HTML "head" tag earrings, to remind you and others where you keep your meta-data.
Nicholas and Felice live in Philomath, Oregon, with their two sons, and have been supporting themselves and their family as independent craftspeople for almost 20 years. If you're interested in how their jewelry is made, check out these photos they just posted to the Makers Market blog showcasing their CNC die-making setup.
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You can be identified by the germs you leave behind
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 8:00am MDT
A study by Noah Fierer and co-workers at the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests that the mix of bacterial flora each of us leaves behind on, say, our computer keyboard or mouse, may be sufficiently unique to identify us:
"Each one of us leaves a unique trail of bugs behind as we travel through our daily lives," said Fierer, an assistant professor in CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department. "While this project is still in it's preliminary stages, we think the technique could eventually become a valuable new item in the toolbox of forensic scientists."
The study was published March 15 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-authors on the PNAS study included Christian Lauber and Nick Zhou of CU-Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, Daniel McDonald of CU-Boulder's department of chemistry and biochemistry, Stanford University Postdoctoral Researcher Elizabeth Costello and CU-Boulder chemistry and biochemistry Assistant Professor Rob Knight.
Using powerful gene-sequencing techniques, the team swabbed bacterial DNA from individual keys on three personal computers and matched them up to bacteria on the fingertips of keyboard owners, comparing the results to swabs taken from other keyboards never touched by the subjects. The bacterial DNA from the keys matched much more closely to bacteria of keyboard owners than to bacterial samples taken from random fingertips and from other keyboards, Fierer said.
Here's the abstract for Fierer's paper at PNAS.
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Materials library lets you play with exotic samples
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 6:30am MDT
Struttura structural honeycomb panel.
If you're interested in materials science, design, architecture, and/or chemistry, and you live in Austin or the central Texas area, you should not miss the UT Austin School of Architecture Materials Lab, located in room 3.102 of the West Mall Office Building on The University of Texas Campus. They're closed this week for Spring Break, but are normally open from 9-5 every weekday. It's open to the public, and is chock-a-block with physical samples of all kinds of exotic materials that would otherwise be difficult to get your hands on in small quantities. Anyone can poke around, and registered students can check out samples just like a book-library.If you're not in the area, the UTSOA Materials Lab is building an online database of its collection organized by composition, form, properties, process, and application. And although they don't have photos of all the samples uploaded yet, it's still fascinating browsing.
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MSI Hackintosh tablet mod
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 6:00am MDT
Check out this slick tablet mod from alexbates. Chopped and channeled 1.6 GHz MSI Wind U100 sporting 120GB HDD and 2GB RAM. [via engadget]
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Build a ball-bearing roller coaster
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 3:00am MDT
Check out this excellent instructable that shows you how to bend mains wire into a roller coaster track for a ball bearing.
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