Tin Foil Soldier

Newegg.com - Transcend 4GB Micro SDHC Flash Card Model TS4GUSDHC6 - Flash Memory
I somehow managed to break my 2GB microSD card when I dropped my phone or something. Either way apparently solid state memory stops working if you break the chip in half, whatever. I lost some pictures, but most of the cool [...]

April is a loser month that only has 30 days.  Don’t forget to move your watch ahead one day or you will be screwed up all day like I was.

Penguin’s Lab
A showcase/documentary of Penguin’s projects & experiments
All kinds of fun stuff like high voltage experiments, peltier coolers, magnetism and high speed photography.
via Make: Fun with ignition coils

MAKE: Blog: Trossen Robotics contest - Phoenix FTW
Phoenix is a six legged walking robot. Wait, we know some of you out there may be thinking that hexapod robots are old hat. Well, you’re wrong. So very wrong. Wait until you see it move.

When it moves, it is so smooth and lifelike, it is definitely creepy.  [...]

MAKE: Blog: Build a heat-driven monitor spinner
Member funnypolynomial built a very simple, heat driven motor that sits atop an LCD monitor bezel. It’s actual a revision of an earlier design for use with CRTs -
I made one, using the PDF with 20 spinner templates on it.
I tried to embed a video of it spinning on [...]

If Light bulbs were Automobiles, you’d be driving a Compact Fluorescent.
I recommend counting all of the regular (incandescent) light bulbs in your house and immediately buying new replacement CFL bulbs for all of them. Then I recommend unscrewing the old bulbs and throwing them away. I recommend doing it right now.
I agree with Rob’s recommendations. [...]

Inventgeek.com - UV Panel Project - Overview
It was only natural that I would combine the two to…
Anything that starts with that phrase is bound to be interesting.
He replaces the backlights in a LCD panel with blacklights and uses the panel to show off UV reactive rocks.

Hands-, Oatmeal-, Chili-, Pudding-, Red Bull-, and Cheetos-On with The Belkin Washable Mouse - Gearlog
It’s a stew of deliciousness–a mixture of mashed cheezy puffs and Red Bull, exactly the kind of midnight pick-me-up you need to squeeze those last few hours out of your week-long WoW marathon. Despite–or perhaps, because of–its magical Taurine-centric powers, the [...]

First Atomic Clock Wristwatch
Do not be misled. The many “atomic time” wristwatches you see on the market today are merely cheap quartz wristwatches with a built-in radio receiver. The watch sets itself from 60 kHz VLF radio time signals transmitted by NIST from station WWVB near the US atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. At least [...]

MAKE: Blog: Print-bot final project
Some students at Georgia Tech built this sweet print-bot, built on a iRobot iCreate.

I wonder if they get another roomba to follow behind it to clean it up?
Print bot @ GA Tech

Daring Fireball: Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications / Exaggerations, Such Pieces Inevitably Lead to Accusations That I’m Some Sort [...]

Reuters QuickCut: Violin robot | Video | Reuters.com
The race to produce the first practical home robots has heated up with Toyota’s new range - including one that plays the violin.
Is it just me, or does the second part of the sentence contradict the first part? I understand that a robot that can play the violin [...]

Kerosene Lamp and Lantern Workshop
I bought a liquid paraffin oil lamp at the renaissance fair during the summer, and it is definitely one of my favorite things to burn, along with candles.  When we are watching TV in the living room, they provide a nice glow to the room that a fluorescent light just can’t [...]

Ratchet Corkscrew - Boing Boing Gadgets
Each ratcheted corkscrew is $100, the equivalent of 100 bottles of the finest ripple.
Is it REALLY that hard to use a normal corkscrew that $100 gadgets need to be invented?  I can maybe undertand if you are opening a high volume of bottles, but then you should just get really [...]

Excel Dryer | XLerator The Fast Hand Dryers
Hand dryer motor shall be a series commutated through-flow discharge vacuum motor/blower (5/8 HP / 20,000 RPM) which provides air velocity of 16,000 LFM (linear feet per minute) at the air outlet and 14,000 LFM at the hands (4 inches [102 mm] below air outlet).
If you ever EVER [...]