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August 27, 2007
Solar teapot heating
Natural heating, from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Avneyon... Link.
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Aug 27, 2007 03:00 PM
Green, Made On Earth |
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August 24, 2007
It's not a motorcycle, baby. It's a mobile barbecue pit
Orange County Chopper / American Chopper's made a mobile BBQ pit for NYC based RUB restaurant, VAROOM!! - [via] Link.
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Aug 24, 2007 08:00 AM
Made On Earth, Transportation |
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Russian wooden phone
Handmade applewood cellphones, thanks John! Link.
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Aug 24, 2007 06:00 AM
Arts, Cellphones, Made On Earth |
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August 22, 2007
The water chopper!
Joe sent over this awesome water chopper!
Years of puttering around the workshop finally have paid off for a local inventor, who was featured in the July edition of Popular Mechanic. Jim Garlitz, who operates a pizza shop in this small unincorporated town in the western Maryland mountains, was featured for a watercraft he assembled using a 1985 red Yamaha Virago frame, a 1990 9.9-horsepower Nissan outboard motor and other ``readily available materials.'' He calls it a water chopper.The water chopper! - [via] Link.
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Aug 22, 2007 09:00 AM
Made On Earth, Transportation |
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August 16, 2007
Homemade welding machine
Erik writes -
Being on the ground in Nairobi makes it a little easier to find good AfriGadget stories. I took a walk down Ngong road, an area with a lot of shadetree mechanics, wood carvers and metal fabricators. The first place I stopped at had a home made welding machine.Homemade welding machine, Thanks Violet! - Link.Simon, the shop owner, showed me a couple of the machines and gave a video tour of how it works. He's a prime example how an entrepreneur in Africa will figure out ingenious solutions to meet local market demands. The welders sell for around 14,000 Kenya Shillings (just over $200), but fabrication costs only a small fraction of that.
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Aug 16, 2007 12:00 PM
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Toothpick and nail art
If you know more about this nail-and-toothpick artist post up in the comments - Link.
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Aug 16, 2007 02:00 AM
Arts, Made On Earth |
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August 15, 2007
Wooden ball machine
Ben's amazing wooden prototype ball machine - Link.
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Aug 15, 2007 05:00 PM
Arts, Made On Earth |
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The Hyposurface (video)
Hyposurface is freaking cool -
HypoSurface is the World's first display system where the screen surface physically moves! Information and form are linked to give a radical new media technology: an info-form device.The Hyposurface - Link.The surface behaves like a precisely controlled liquid: waves, patterns, logos, even text emerge and fade continually within its dynamic surface. The human eye is drawn to physical movement, and this gives HypoSurface a basic advantage over other display systems.
As a digital device, any input (sound, movement, an Internet feed...) can be linked to any output (logos, patterns, text...) This offers full interactivity with an audience, and a simple User Interface allows HypoSurface to be 'tuned' to any event, its wide range of effects choreographed easily (by you…)
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Aug 15, 2007 04:00 AM
Arts, Made On Earth |
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August 13, 2007
knife.hand.chop.bot
Wow, the knife.hand.chop.bot is my new favorite bot. The best part of the video is the laser dot that appears on the person's hand before it starts its chopping -
5VOLTCORE is about to build a self-fulfilling cybernetic system, that plays with the senses and perceptions of the User and the sensors and the processes of the Machine.knife.hand.chop.bot - Link.The Robot is equipped with a knife that the Machine uses to s(t)imulate the test of courage - a kind of game known as "Mumblety-Peg". The User puts his/her hand into the Machine and starts the knife game at the push of a button. The knife starts to hit the space between the fingers, first slowly then continually getting faster. The Machine knows where to chop by receiving signals of a sensor that guides the knife to the place between the fingers.
Electric contacts are mounted on the support block of the Machine, where the hand is situated. These contacts are activated as soon as the first "nervous sweat" appears that turns the skin into a conductor. Subsequently the computer becomes disturbed by the electric current that is now transmitted via the skin.
This has two effects: on the one hand, sounds are generated by the closure of the contacts (circuit bending) that can either be interpreted as warning or act as an additional source of stress. On the other hand, they can have an effect on the position of the knife which is controlled by the computer and thereby hurt the potential perpetrator of the disturbance.
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Aug 13, 2007 05:00 PM
Arts, Made On Earth, Robotics |
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August 8, 2007
The hoof trimmer
Ann sent in this video about a guy in maine who built his own hydraulic cow-lift to tip a cow on it's side, so he can take a power grider to it's hoofs. Lots of jiggling udders and a dramatic cow-fall included! (No animals were harmed) - Link.
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Aug 8, 2007 05:00 AM
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Dick Bear's McBearen/Mclaren
Metal Meet forums thread about Dick Bear's "McBearen" McLaren racer, built by hand, from the ground up, thanks Visgoth!. Link.
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Aug 8, 2007 04:00 AM
DIY Projects, Made On Earth, Transportation |
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August 3, 2007
NYC Maker makes 1775 submarine - gets cited by US Coast Guard
Breaking news!!! -
A Brooklyn man in a Revolutionary War-era submarine was cited by the U.S. Coast Guard for drifting into a security zone and unsafe sailing in the East River near the Queen Mary 2 luxury liner, the Coast Guard and New York City Police Department announced Friday.ABC News: NYC Man Cited for 1775 Submarine - Link.The man in the replica vessel was identified as 35-year-old Philip "Duke" Riley from Brooklyn, N.Y., according to Coast Guard spokesman Petty Officer Seth Johnson.
Authorities said it was the second time Riley floated the vessel in the vicinity of the cruise ship. The submarine, which reportedly did not have a mechanical propulsion system, was being towed by two other men in a rowboat.
Duke's site here!
Here are some more photos of the "Turtle"...
Another working Turtle replica, created in 1993 at Handshouse Studio.
(Photo: Cary Wolinski)
NY Times photos here - Link.
NY Times article - Link.
Flickr photos here - Link.
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Aug 3, 2007 01:00 PM
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August 2, 2007
The coolest (looking) radio station - RMF FM :: Radio Muzyka Fakty
I don't know what the music sounds like, but this is what radio stations should look like! - Link.
Related:
- RMF Radio Station in Poland Occupies 21st Century Facility - Link.
- Most bizarre radio station in the world? - Link.
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Aug 2, 2007 02:00 PM
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Giant match
Here's the making of a giant match, no really - a giant match made from 15,000 match heads - Link.
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Aug 2, 2007 01:00 PM
DIY Projects, Made On Earth |
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August 1, 2007
Cosmic muffin - a boat that was a plane
The Cosmic Muffin was once a Boeing 307 Stratoliner and now it's a boat (I think that's an AC sticking out the side)... - [via] Link.
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Aug 1, 2007 08:00 PM
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The Light Sharpener - 12 foot solar collection satellite dish
Rob continues his pursuit of sun powered cooking with a homemade 12 foot solar collection satellite dish, here's the latest... and a VHS tape too - Link.
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Aug 1, 2007 03:00 PM
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Trash can music
Check out Mctracz's amazing trash can music photos! - [via] Link.
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Aug 1, 2007 08:00 AM
Made On Earth, Music |
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Made in China
A ton of readers sent this in today, a photo essay and narration about the electronic markets in Shenzhen, China... Link & James Fallows's related story in the July/August 2007 Atlantic - Link.
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Aug 1, 2007 03:00 AM
How it's made, Made On Earth |
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July 31, 2007
Giant Labyrinth game for sale
Dave writes -
Last year, I and five friends created this scale version of the popular Brio Labyrinth game for Holocene's Annual Mini Golf Invitational, where artists are asked to create original mini-golf holes.Giant Labyrinth game - Link.Labyrinth: The Mini-golf Version is just like Labyrinth: the Original Laptop Game, except played with a golf ball instead of a ball bearing. "Greens" surround the mini-golf version and allow you to putt the ball around the game. Of course, if you successfully navigate the maze, you get a hole in one. A LOT of fun.
Our hard work garnered us a prize at the event, "Hole I'd Most Like to Take Home." Now you can. Just make me an offer I can't refuse. I will deliver within 10 miles of downtown Portland for an extra $20.
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Jul 31, 2007 04:00 PM
Gaming, Made On Earth |
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July 23, 2007
Amazing homemade watches
Interview with Haruo Suekichi, creator of thousands of amazing watches - Link & site.
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Jul 23, 2007 09:00 AM
Arts, Made On Earth |
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