Jensemanns stuff

hongkiat.com

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Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

I've known UV light tattoos have existed for awhile, but I've never seen such good use of the idea until Matty posted this picture on Geekologie's Facebook page. So yeah, props to whoever this is having them go all the way to the fingernail, I'd figure that would hurt. Of course, I said the same thing about jumping in front of a bus to save an old lady group of elementary schoolchildren on a ...

Gizmodo

This is the gear that gets our troops excited. Microflown Technologies' tiny sensor listens for the sounds of war by measuring particles in the air. Then it reports what weapon made the sound and where that sound originated.

The sensor uses a technology, developed by Microflown, called acoustic vector sensing. AVS heats two 200-nanometer wide platinum strips to 200 degrees Celsius and measures h...

MAKE Magazine

Spotted in the MAKE Forums:

Liam built this impressive robot, then used it to demonstrate the difference between proportional and PID control. The robot is designed to stay a certain distance from an object, and uses two Sharp IR distance sensors to track it's position. The system looks like it is working great, however he is noticing some variability in the output of the distance sensors he i...

MAKE Magazine

Rachel @ CRAFT points us to this drawer set with graduated boxes for proper and easy hardware storage, what a neat idea!

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MAKE Magazine

The Association of Professional Model Makers (APMM) 2010 conference, "Revolutions in Model Making - Creating the Future Faster," will be held on March 26-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cambridge, MA.

The conference's keynote speaker is Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms and author of FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop -- From Personal Computers to...

Keith's Electronics Blog

Over the holiday break, I had written about using a hairdryer to heat my CupCake build chamber.

On January 11, 2010, Tom McGuire wrote:

Hey Keith, I haven’t caught up with your blog for some time. Looks like you got a lot done in the last couple weeks. It’s good to see you’re getting results from your CupCake.

Can I help you with a hot plate? I could make you a thin aluminum plate about 4″ square...

MAKE Magazine

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool:

Flickr user zeni666 made this neat visualizer using an Arduino, oscilloscope, and homemade resistor ladder. Here's what the setup looks like:

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Blue Ant Studio

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-joel

MAKE Magazine

Although this is still a work in progress, I think it's great! All you need is an Arudino, a few buttons, and an 8x8 LED matrix to make you own simplified version of this arcade classic. What's next Halo? Let's hope so! More information, including the Arduino code, can be found in the Vimeo description.

This is a game project for S10-05833 - Gadgets, Sensors, and Activity Recognition in HCI...

MAKE Magazine

Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman's Truckbot could be built for under $20 (excluding mobile). That's pretty impressive for such an open and accessible robotics prototyping environment. Using a laser-cut cardboard chassis, $3 micro servos, and a bare bones Arduino, the duo have assembled one of the cheapest platforms to come along in a while. [via GadgetLab]

One of the main reasons for using cell...

Designboom - Weblog

'freshwater factory'


parisian firm design crew for architecture (DCA) created 'freshwater factory',
a proposal for the 2010 skyscraper competition.

as they were looking for the redefinition of the term 'skyscraper' through the use of
new programs, we decided to look for somewhere else to implement a skyscraper.
obviously, it has to be the countryside. the main question we ...

Designboom - Weblog

'modern chess set', rachel whiteread 2005

'the art of chess' is an exhibition of seven chess sets created by a group of contemporary
artist including jake and dinos chapman, tracey emin, tom friedman, damien hirst, barbara kruger,
alastair mackie and rachel whiteread. each artist infused their own interpretation of the board
game in real dimensions.

the exhibition is set to open on the 49th...

Nerdcore

(Youtube Direktregen, via Buzzfeed)

Schöner Kurzfilm von Michael Chaves, Mahalo hat mehr Infos, ein Making Of und Outtakes.

Geek And Poke

Gizmodo

Remember those cheap green plastic army men? The ones that were in Toy Story? And in your grubby toddler hands? Now available in a LEGO version for $11, they're ready to melt your meta-meta-heart...with a lighter. Medic! [LEGO]

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