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opmlQuick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights
For a late night summer party, we wanted to deploy an array of maybe 20 or so little LED garden lights along the periphery of our back yard. And since it was for a one-time event, there wasn't much sense in buying (or building) a set of nice look...
Linkdump: August 2008
Eclipse Pies conceptExplain that (party game idea?)Internet Pinball DatabaseMiles to km... an interesting coincidence. A short sample of music played on the African Kora (Thanks Blaise!)Fantastic Fire BowlsMusée Patamécanique The Exh...
Chair Reupholstery with Used Denim
A broken-in pair of jeans is one of the comfiest things in the world (denim is to humans as cardboard is to cats, right?). Unfortunately, they do eventually wear out. Luckily, they leave behind the best upholstery material: soft, comfy, durable...
A simple persistence of vision approach to Lissajous figures
Lissajous figures are interesting curves that occur in systems where oscillation happens in more than one direction, for example when a pendulum hanging from a string moves in its plane.The "standard" way to play with Lissajous figures is on an os...
The Classic American Workbench
It's a holiday weekend here in the states, and holiday weekends are great for getting organized and working on projects. In that spirit, here are a couple of pictures the workbench in my dad's garage. Mmmmm....tools!
A Visit to Sturgeon's Mill, a Steam-powered Lumber Mill
Sturgeon's Mill is a steam-powered sawmill in northern California. I had the privilege of seeing it running recently. The next demonstration dates are Sept 20 & 21 and Oct 18 & 19. If you have any cause to be near Sebastopol, California on thos...
DIY d12 Handbag (of Holding)
Retro-dork-chic-DIY-d12 handbag. Drawstring dice bags are nearly ubiquitous amongst people who play with non-cubical dice. They can even be used as hand bags. But what about the inverse-- a bag that looks like one of the dice? Here's how...
Cardboard Cat Chaise
Although we don't claim to understand it, a cat that has installed itself in a cardboard box is a happy cat. You can exploit this mysterious fact to make a your own simple corrugated cardboard cat bed like this one, designed as a kitty-sized chai...
Peggy Fail Whale!
Sean O'Steen of The Fail Whale Fan Club (failwhale.com) and part time tinkerer captured the essence of the Twitter Fail Whale on his Peggy. Check out how Sean planned his peggy here. Sweet! Thanks to Scott Beale / Laughing Squid for the pho...
Generations of Video Games
Last weekend we went to California Extreme and took along Tennis for Two, which got to sit right next to a PlayStation 3. Video games have come a long way in fifty years, but as one Tennis for Two player commented, good game play doesn't have to ...
"That's no melon!"
One cantaloupe, a knife, and five minutes. Your very own (and very tasty) planet-killing superweapon.Hint 1: Center the "crater" around where the stem was connected so that the darker fibers under the skin point towards the center of it. Hint 2:...
July 2008 Linkdump
Archives of The Amateur Scientist (from Scientific American), brought to you by Bill BeatyLiquidMacCat Herder game. The Tetris Wiki has a surprising amount of interesting content.Klein bottle! Otterpops vs. Fla-Vor-Ice... in which a shocking secre...
Resurrecting Tennis for Two, a video game from 1958
In the year 1958-- fourteen years before the 1972 debut of Pong-- a physicist named William Higinbotham demonstrated a remarkable video game called Tennis for Two.Higinbotham, head of the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory...
Bakery Machinery is Awesome
Specialized machinery is fascinating, but you don't often get to see it. Our local bakery, Le Boulanger (at their headquarters on Mathilda in Sunnyvale) provides windows from their seating area into the production area. It is absolutely wonderfu...
The Peggy Strikes Back
Today we have an update on our Peggy 2.0 Light Emitting Pegboard project, with (1) a new and improved version of the Peggy2 Arduino library, (2) links to several awesome examples of Peggy hacks-- including a full-motion video hack, and (3) a new G...
Cubyrop: the perfect candy
We first discovered Cubyrop via flickr and were smitten, so we put them in an Amazon wishlist. But after more than a year, we happened to just come across a bag of them at Nijiya (a Japanese supermarket) and were thrilled! The verdict? Cubyrop ...
