Another week, another company killing off a giant product after spending millions of dollars and years developing. Back in 2009 Cisco bought Pure Digital Technology’s Flip. Gadget fans and makers were puzzled by this; phones were just about good eno…
A commenter on last week’s electric bike round-up pointed me to this drool-inducing 2008 build from one “Doctorbass,” of Quebec. I am especially impressed by the custom-built battery pack:432 Sony 18650V (known as Konion).used in Makita, Bionx an…
A guy learning to ride a power-assist bicycle doesn't seem to know where the brakes are, or the building.
This won’t be my usual excessively verbose review, as I haven’t really had a chance to dive into the subject matter yet, but I picked up the new Barry Eisler short-story (and preview of this upcoming book) last night, and wish I’d have known about Smashwords sooner. Smashwords’ claim to fame is “Your ebook, your [...]
It took 245 hours and 750 parts printed on 285 pages of paper to construct this Audi A7 model by Taras Lesko. [via BoingBoing]
There’s a program on your computer you’ve used hundreds of times that can do all kinds of amazing things:
It can grab information from the web and create crazy calculations and fancy charts…
Download a PDF of The Truth Meter project instructions here. Thanks to Sean M. Montgomery for the original article in MAKE Volume 26.
If you’re not following along with the great work RDTN is doing to create networks of radiation sensors, check out just one of their projects: iGeigie, a geiger counter that plugs into your iPhone.
iGeigie – world premiere of a portable Geiger C…
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