Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 11:10 am Come one, come all, science geeks, food lovers, Arduino hackers. Build a magical box with Arduino-inspired technology that will control the temperature of an appliance you hack, up to 0.1 degrees accuracy. October 15th at the BioCurious hackerspace in Sunnyvale!
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 11:10 am I am probably flattering myself, taking any sort of credit for inspiring this sweet custom temperature controller built by Adafruit reader Mike to keep his beer-brewing fridge at a constant temperature. Like my recent project, it simultaneously controls AC-powered heating and cooling equipment to maintain a constant temperature, and is mounted in a CANTEX PVC junction box. But there the similarities pretty much end: Whereas I used a cheap off-the-shelf thermostat module from China, Mike built and programmed his own controller using an Arduino for brains, an Xbee for remote temperature control and data logging, and a cool multicolor LED display with letters that turn red when the system is heating, blue when it is cooling, and green when it is at the correct temperature.
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 11:10 am Jake Ketchum’s Automatic Media Deactivation System attaches to a standard power strip and shuts off all power to a room’s electronics when its smart sensor detects that a person is no longer in the room. When someone re-enters, the system is switched back on. He demonstrated his invention at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 11:10 am Looks like a great parent-child project. It’s not in danger of breaking any records, but a fun project nonetheless. [Via @ItsColossal]
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 11:10 am As I wrote about a month ago, one of the many unusual phenomena Ben Krasnow has produced in his garage is supercritical CO2. As you may recall, Ben machined a custom acrylic pressure vessel so he could get (and give) a good look at a state of matter that most of us have little experience of. Since then Ben has inadvertently had a chance to observe another extremely unusual effect: the carbonation of solid acrylic.
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 10:10 am If car users knew how fast cyclists were moving, would they be more willing to share the road? That’s the question posed by Mykle Hansen in the intro to his Speed Vest project from MAKE Volume 19. Bicyclists receive a lot of honk-based grief from car drivers who perceive them as slow and in the […]
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 10:10 am Andrew Goodin, a chemistry teacher at Soldan International Studies HS in St. Louis, MO, whipped up this chemistry themed chess board on the fly: It is a picture of our chemistry themed chess board. We designed it after school today when we realized that many students in our technology club knew how to play chess, […]
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 10:10 am Andrew Goodin, a chemistry teacher at Soldan International Studies HS in St. Louis, MO, whipped up this chemistry themed chess board on the fly: It is a picture of our chemistry themed chess board. We designed it after school today when we realized that many students in our technology club knew how to play chess, […]
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 10:10 am Artificial bone made using fish collagen reaches the same state in about three months, so it converts to bone very quickly.
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Oct 06th, 2011
Blogsnapper at 10:10 am Looks like a great parent-child project. It’s not in danger of breaking any records, but a fun project nonetheless. [Via @ItsColossal]
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