Cheap DIY thermal flashlight provides evidence to landlords and housing authorities about poor insulation in apartment units.
Posted by Paul Spinrad | Thursday May 3rd, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Open Source Hardware | 5 Comments
Whatever the larger implications of the mammoth ivory trade may be, it has created a practical forensic problem for law enforcement. Buying mammoth ivory is, generally, legal, while buying elephant...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday March 29th, 2012 6:25 AM
Ever wonder what kind of information gets stored on your cell phone's SIM card? Find out with the SIM Card Reader / Writer Kit from the Maker Shed! Build the...
Posted by Maker Shed | Friday July 29th, 2011 8:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, General | No Comments
Photogrammetry has been with us for as long as we've had cameras. Autodesk has taken it to its logical next step with Project Photofly. Using a standard point and shoot...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Friday July 15th, 2011 4:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Photography & Video | 10 Comments
When you feel nervous, excited, surprised, or otherwise aroused, you experience galvanic skin response (GSR). Your sweat glands, in responses to adrenaline and other hormones, start to release micro pulses...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Friday April 22nd, 2011 5:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, General | 1 Comment
Make: Online readers who are secret agents—or secret agent wannabes—will love this project, which comes to us from MAKE Volume 16. By replacing the ink in a color inkjet cartridge...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Friday April 1st, 2011 5:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics, General, Hacks, Science | 6 Comments
A study by Noah Fierer and co-workers at the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests that the mix of bacterial flora each of us leaves behind on, say, our computer...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday March 15th, 2010 8:48 PM
Categories: General, Science | No Comments
We’ve got lots of new content in the Make: Science Room, including a whole new Forensics series on the many methods of fingerprinting. Tired of those bitter family disputes over...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday October 29th, 2009 2:47 PM
Categories: Science | 2 Comments
We’ve just added a bunch of new content to the Make: Science Room. In “General,” we added Bob’s brief on how to set up and keep a proper lab notebook,...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday September 29th, 2009 2:55 PM
Categories: Science | No Comments
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