2012 Apr 25, 4:18
(via DIY Building Blocks Furniture)
Its jumbo Legos to make furniture. At least in theory very cool, although I wonder about the comfort of a chair made from this.
lego humor furniture 2011 Mar 7, 9:13Instructions for a DIY bluetooth glove with mic in pinky and earpiece in thumb.
bluetooth humor awesome phone diy 2010 Dec 6, 9:03"The Electric Umbrella will glow with many pinpoints of light"
art cool diy electronics geek umbrella 2010 Sep 14, 2:24Good idea and solves some of the head lamp problems: "...Enter the Hand Lights, a pretty simple and cheap DIY project that puts adjustable lights on your forearms to light whatever is in your hands."
light diy hand head-lamp tool 2009 Oct 18, 5:22"Q: The caulk around my bathtub is peeling away in places, and it looks pretty ugly. How do I remove it and recaulk?"
howto diy home tool caulk shower bathtub tile 2009 Aug 31, 4:53From Ira as part of The Balloon Project "... took the lo-fi diy map making essentials (portable helium tank, party balloons, and a disposable video camera) to Paris, France, where they launched a
video camera into the sky not knowing where it would go, and created some very unique aerial cartography of the Place de la Concorde.' I'd love to see this run through photo stitching
software like Photosynth and then layered on Google Maps.
map balloon art ira-mowen france paris 2009 Jul 31, 6:04An electric unicycle controlled in a similar manner as the Segway.
humor photo unicycle transportation segway diy hardware howto via:swannman 2009 Jul 6, 3:47Howto make your own garden including pre-made plans like the 'Plant it and Forget it' garden.
via:jen howto diy garden for:hellosarah 2009 Jun 1, 3:21"Marc Weber Tobias can pick, crack, or bump any lock. Now he wants to teach the world how to break into military facilities and corporate headquarters."
via:boingboing hack diy business politics security video lockpicking lock crime wired 2009 May 29, 8:49Howto on goggles that block out everything but the small range of IR that's barely visible. "INFRARED GOGGLES FOR UNDER $10, A Human IR Vision Experiment, Sept. 14, 2002 Bill Beaty"
ir infrared hack howto science photography diy hardware light 2009 May 28, 1:12A homemade CPU and computer. I love the primary colors on the mess of wires. The close up shot is lovely.
howto diy hardware computer electronics cpu homemade maker-faire 2009 Apr 13, 12:20Cat door that opens only for the owner's cat's collars containing particular RFID tags. When opened a photo is snapped and twittered. "Best use of Twitter, the Tweeting Cat Door"
rfid twitter cat humor programming geek diy automation 2009 Apr 9, 8:56Someone implemented the Ironic Sans artificial sundial clock concept! "Last year David Friedman published on his blog Ironic Sans an interesting design concept for something that he called The
Bulbdial Clock. That's like a sundial, but with better resolution-- not just an hour hand, but a minute and second hand as well, each given as a shadow from moving artificial light sources (bulbs).
We've recently put together a working bulbdial clock, with an implementation somewhat different from that of the original concept."
howto diy clock led sundial via:swannman 2009 Jan 25, 5:39
Microsoft isn't completely shielded from our economies issues but I still have a job and
still get free soda. While that's all still the case, I decided to test Sarah's claimed ability to differentiate between Pepsi, Coke, and their diet counterparts by taste alone. I poured the four
sodas into marked cups and Sarah and I each took two runs through the cups with the following guesses.
Soda Identification Challenge Results
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Drink
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Sarah
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Dave
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Guess 1
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Guess 2
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Guess 1
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Guess 2
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Coke
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Coke
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Coke
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Pepsi
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Coke
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Diet Coke
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Coke
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Diet Coke
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Pepsi
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Pepsi
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Pepsi
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Coke
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Coke
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Pepsi
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Diet Coke
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Diet Pepsi
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Pepsi
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Total (out of 8)
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6
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3
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As you can see from the results, Sarah's claimed ability to identify Coke and Pepsi by taste is confirmed. The first run through she got completely correct and on the second run only mistook Diet
Pepsi for Diet Coke. Her excuse for the error on the second run was a tainted palate from the first run. I on the other hand was mostly incorrect. Surprisingly though my incorrect answers were
mostly consistent between run one and two. For instance I thought Pepsi was Coke in both runs.
coke microsoft waste of soda pepsi waste of time soda 2008 Dec 31, 2:14Art on boxes: "the rules are quite simple: rearrange a box to make any kind of figure or object. make the most of least."
art box design diy paper gallery sculpture doodle illustration 2008 Dec 30, 1:03"Introducing Make: television, Coming in January 2009: A new national series from MAKE magazine, Twin Cities Public Television, and American Public Television"
pbs tv make diy community hack via:boingboing 2008 Oct 14, 12:50Cardboard filter that turns video monitors into an array of large color-changing boxes applied to public video billboard ads: "Pixelator turns those ugly, blinding video billboard ads into art."
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