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This iPhone macro lens carousel mod is a great way to recycle that pile of scavenged optics you've got laying around. [via LifeHacker ]
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New in the Maker Shed, OLLO kits ! What are OLLO kits ? OLLO is a reconfigurable construction kit for beginner robot enthusiasts. Using an easy to build plate and rivet system, you'll be on your way to making your own robots in no time! We carry the Motorized Action kit , which allows you to ...
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SparkFun BlueSMiRF found in credit card sniffer, interesting Sparkfun product placement. Nate writes -
That is an officer of the law holding up a device that was found within a 'PIN pad' in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I didn't know what a PIN pad is, so here's a wikipedia article and ...
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MAKE Japan is having a meet up, check out this iPhone instrument! It looks like 3 iPhones mounted to a laser cut body and the player "blows" to produce music!
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From Flickr user Bloodthirsty Vegetarians , who also produce an eponymous podcast . [via Neatorama ]
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We have some special Thanksgiving recipes on CRAFT to make your feast extra delicious. Check 'em all out!
Thanksgiving Feast: How-To Brine & Roast a Turkey
Thanksgiving Feast: Side Dishes
Thanksgiving Feast: Pumpkin Pie with Caramel Pecan Topping
Homemade Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream
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A big Keanu "Whoa" over these gorgeous 3D renderings of fractals. The article offers a fascinating back story about the 20-year quest to adequately display a Mandelbulb, such a 3D analog rendering of a Mandelbrot set.
The Unraveling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot
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The Microbe Motel is the grossest, smelliest, nastiest science kit we've ever offered. Ever! Other than some common household items, the Microbe Motel includes everything you need to grow colorful, stinky, colonies of household germs, bacteria, molds, and maybe even a fungus or two. Don't ...
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Science Friday's "Science Through Graphic Novels" ... Great interview(s)! Using graphic novels to teach science...
In this segment, we'll take a look at two graphic novels that approach science from a different direction. One tackles Darwin's 'Origin of Species,' while the other deals ...
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Tiny solar-powered brass engine in a wineglass
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Good news for those in Chicagoland! Planning is underway to form Workshop 88 , a hackerspace in the west suburbs of Chicago. Here's your chance to get in on the ground floor!
We're currently in the planning stage, and we're looking for interested people in the area to help us get ...
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We're ecstatic about the fact that we now have Maker Shed kiosks, with magazines, books, and electronics kits, in several California Fry's stores . We think this is big news, not only for Maker Media, but for all indie makers -- a major retail chain is now giving small kit-makers ...
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From the MAKE Flickr pool
Once you've caught the 'electronics bug', spending time away from the workbench/lab can seem an unpleasant prospect. Luckily, one can carry on learning and experimenting with a minimal amount of hardware. Nick shares his own recipe for ultra-compact electronics ...
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Olympus BioScapes competition winners , amazing photos!
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Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland...
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LHC tweets it's first circulating beam of 2009 , good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos here ...
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As a member of Hack Pittsburgh, our local hackerspace, one thing I've wanted to know if anyone else is there before I make the trek over. Well, so did Andy Leer and Marty McGuire, so they decided to build a shop presence notification system . They reasoned that they could measure the ...
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Bruce Heran made this prototyping board for his tube projects. He writes:
This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test "board." I do a lot of work with tubes and love ...
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By way of Andrew Q Righter of HacDC comes word of this free PDF from Texas Instruments, a 41-page "cookbook" of circuit designs and application notes for TI's LED-related components. [Thanks, Andrew!]
LED Reference Design Cookbook [PDF]
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