Like most, I’ve been counting down the days until the Nobel Prizes are handed out - there will be block parties, Facebook fan pages, parades - all celebrating physics, chemistry, physiology / medicine, literature and peace. For weeks the news coverage will just be all Nobel, all the time. Some say we all get too wrapped up in the Nobels each year, but those people just do not have the Nobel spirit.
October 5th, 2010 the winners of the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics will be announced - Thomson Reuters has their predictions, I think the WMAP gang is going to get it. Post your predictions in the comments and stop back here in a week!
While not a collector of measure, I deeply enjoy seeing like objects grouped together. (Don’t you? It’s like a brain massage!) In any case, I was just turned on to San Francisco illustrator and Rare Device boutique/gallery owner Lisa Congdon’s Collection A Day blog. Here we get to see a photograph or drawing posted each day from her numerous real and imagined collections — ranging from luscious vintage ephemera to erasers, fishing lures to spatulas, pine cones to flash cards. Keep an eye out for the book, to be released via Uppercase in the Spring of 2011.
They’ve got to be heavy, and I can’t imagine how they might ride, but there’s no denying the post-apocalyptic awesomeness of sporting a bike you welded up yourself from a pile of rebar. Up top is a shot from the consistently-amusing-but-occassionally-offensive There, I Fixed It, that got me Googling around for more….
And this one is by Tempe, AZ, resident Matt Krise.
I love Geek Craft Month! In honor of this awesome month, I thought that it would be fun to make these geek inspired printables. You can use these as gift labels, book labels, stickers or hang tags. Just download, print, crop and enjoy. Totally geeky and totally cool!
Card stock or Full sheet labels
Color printer
Paper cutter or scissors
Instructions
Print the cards. When printing, page scaling is a choice in the print dialog box, please make sure that you have the page scaling set up to “none”, do not “fit to page”. Crop and enjoy!
About the Author:
After teaching elementary school for nine years, Joy Charde keeps her schedule full being a mom and working at her local public library. In the wee hours of the night, you can find her doodling and creating vector art. Find Joy on her blog, CreativeMamma.com.
Thanks to everyone who entered our recent giveaway for the book, P.S. - I Made This… by Erica Domesek. The two winners are Lisa from Brookline, MA and Jill from Fargo, ND. Congratulations!
Enter your soft circuit project on Instructables for a chance to win LilyPad Arduino and Fashioning Technology gear/supplies. Deadline is October 11!
Unlike traditional circuits on rigid circuit boards, soft circuits are flexible and are ideal for building into soft mediums like fabric or paper. For this contest, make an Instructable showing how you made your own soft circuit. It can involve buttons, sensors, conductive thread, fabric, glue, paint, or any other flexible materials. Just make it great and be sure to document it with great photos and clear text.
Andy Oakland made this Meat Head project for our DIY Halloween publication, and now this fleshy hors d’œuvre tutorial is online for free on the Make: Projects site.
I’ve served a Meat Head at my Halloween parties for at least the last five years. It never fails to impress (and distress!) my guests. Wash it well, and make sure it’s clean enough to eat off of. Because that’s what you’re going to do.
Half of our team is here in New York this weekend for the first World Maker Faire. There are lots of exciting and fun things going on at the Faire, but even if you can’t be here, you can still celebrate the Maker Faire Spirit. Here are a few ways to bring Maker Faire into your weekend and daily lives.
Get your friends together for a crafty gathering. Check our archives for easy knitting, crochet or embroidery projects and invite some friends over for food, drinks and crafting. Or just have a BYO-Craft-Supplies party where everyone brings any craft supplies they want, toss it on the table and make stuff together!
Shop handmade. Here at Maker Faire, the BUST Craftacular is in full swing, and there are more than 100 vendors selling all kinds of awesome handmade items. If you can’t come to Maker Faire and the Craftacular, check out some of your local handmade vendors or browse Etsy to find gifts for friends (or yourself!).
Learn a new crafty skill. Here at Maker Faire, we’ve got demos and make-and-take booths where folks are learning how to do everything from crochet to soldering. If you have a craft you’ve always wanted to try, find a class or a friend who can teach you. Don’t put off learning any longer, get started on a new craft skill today!
Check out this sweet motorcycle GPS and temperature display that came out of HeatSync Labs (cool name by the way). Nice thing about the system is that it could be modified to monitor all sorts of motorcycle sensors.
Via: Adafruit
“The components used include these:
Arduino Duemilanove
Adafruit GPS logger shield kit
USGlobalSat GPS Module
Standard LCD 20×4
Breadboard Power Supply
Polycarbonate Electronics […]
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