Join us for a day of creativity as we ‘knit’ micro-organisms such as Swine Flu, Salmonella and the common cold! Find out more about the microbes we encounter in our everyday lives and some of the more uncommon ones. Learn how to knit and add to our growing colonies! This is a drop-in event for all abilities - bring your own knitting kit, but some supplies will be available on the day.
If you can’t make it out to the event, you can download free patterns for knitting models of Tuberculosis, Cholera, Salmonella, Common Cold, Swine Flu, and Penicillium. [via Art Yarn]
Preparing a non-PDF document If the document you desire to turn into a booklet is not a PDF-file, we need to turn it into one. If you have written or copy-pasted the document text in Open Office, you can just use the PDF Export function to get the PDF file we need. For other file formats or olde… By: denkbert
This is the second revision of my PIC based LED binary clock. The original version was the first PIC project I attempted, it used a PIC16F84A to do both the timekeeping and control the display matrix, unfortunately it didn’t keep good enough time and gained about a minute every week.This second vers… By: ElevenOf9
The gates at the side of our house succumbed to a big wind storm recently. The cause was ground rot on the posts, but that meant that most of the wood was still in pretty good condition despite being over thirty years old. Instead of throwing it out my wife suggested recycling it to make an outdoor … By: Layout
Our Fascination video series features interviews with notable scientists and technologists, sponsored by Dow Chemical. All the videos are up now, and they’re worth watching. How often do you get to hear these brilliant folks describe why they’re fascinated with what they do? Here’s the lineup:
As part of the summer-long Fame Festival in Italy that culminated in a final show last month, artists Blu and David Ellis spent a long week collaborating to create this amazing animation clip, made by filming morphing hand-painted murals. The video loops twice, in case you are beyond astounded the first time around.
This one looks quite ripe for a remake - Heatstick’s wearable hummingbird feeder gives a very close-up view of a fascinating animal. If the $79.95 asking price is a bit outside of your current birdwatching budget - do consider painting up a face shield, drilling a hole, and mounting a nectar-filled bulb within - just be sure to give the little guys some alone time to grow acquainted with the feeder before attempting to ‘interface’. [via Boing Boing]
Instructables and Digital Days are happy to announce the winners of the Digital Days Photo Contest!We wanted to see photo tips and tricks and you responded with a wide variety of Instructables. From close-up shots to setups to hard drive stabilizers, the entries clearly showed creativity and ingenui… By: Contest Robot
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Preparing a non-PDF document If the document you desire to turn into a booklet is not a PDF-file, we need to turn it into one. If you have written or copy-pasted the document text in Open Office, you can just use the PDF Export function to get the PDF file we need. For other file formats or olde…
This is the second revision of my PIC based LED binary clock. The original version was the first PIC project I attempted, it used a PIC16F84A to do both the timekeeping and control the display matrix, unfortunately it didn’t keep good enough time and gained about a minute every week.This second vers…
The gates at the side of our house succumbed to a big wind storm recently. The cause was ground rot on the posts, but that meant that most of the wood was still in pretty good condition despite being over thirty years old. Instead of throwing it out my wife suggested recycling it to make an outdoor …
Instructables and Digital Days are happy to announce the winners of the Digital Days Photo Contest!We wanted to see photo tips and tricks and you responded with a wide variety of Instructables. From close-up shots to setups to hard drive stabilizers, the entries clearly showed creativity and ingenui…