“This is a 12V bulb which is being overdriven to 14+V, to about 140 watts, with an estimated light output of about 4000 lumens. Compare that to a regular 2D MagLight, which is much, much less than 50 lumens.”
Yup, that’s 12 1.2V NiMH batteries in there, which I guess means it’s rechargable too. I love it.
Carla from CRAFT and myself are judges for a fun contest @ NPR -
“Make a timely ornament (or a menorah, for the Jews!). NPR’s First Ever Holiday Craft Contest. Design either a handmade menorah or a Christmas tree ornament. We are looking for designs that reflect the news of 2006. We also welcome quirky, funny and/or offbeat designs.” – Link.
What do you win? Swag from the NPR Shop: The Hanukkah Lights Gift Set for the menorah winner; an NPR Jazz Christmas Collection with Marian McPartland for the ornament winner.
How to do you enter? Post your creation on Flickr.com with the keyword: NPRHOLIDAYCONTEST. Be sure to include a short artist’s statement and a way we can contact you.
It would be great to see one our makers and crafters win…
“When the final case design of the Playstation 3 was released, it was widely critsised as looking exactly like a George Foreman Grill … we decided this would be a great project and challenge to actually build the Real PS3 Grill.”
I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in knowing that somehow, somewhere, some dude is cooking up little steaks and sausages on a $600 toy. They’re still working on the full tutorial and a video, but photos and disassembly instructions are available. [via] – Link & disassembly photos.
This 4 legged scooter is one of the strangest transportation devices I’ve ever seen. I wish I knew what this is about exactly-it looks like maybe a Japanese funny videos or candid camera show.
If you look closely, it appears that each leg is guided by two wheels. I’m guessing the front wheel controls the leg’s up/down motion, and the rear wheel controls the angle. If they are slightly out of phase, it should make the relatively smooth stride that you see. I don’t know for sure if that’s how it works, but it’s my best guess from a quick napkin sketch (and it seems like I’ve seen something similar before in a lego robot).
Anyone have a better idea of how this thing works or a link to a robot that walks in this manner? [via] – Link.
MAKE is a sponsor of the Blip Festival 2006 NYC NOV 30 – DEC 3! So, stop by Thurs (tonight) through Sunday. If you want to buy MAKE stuff super-cheap I have a table here, so here’s your chance. I’m also willing to trade some stuff and/or haggle – really, do your worst.
Tonight: Visuals: Dan Winckler, C-TRL Labs, The C-Men. Music: Virt, Receptors, Glomag, Startpause, x|km Goto80,Tugboat, Chibi-Tech.
“THE TANK and 8BITPEOPLES are pleased to present the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit videogame consoles and home computers used as creative tools. Familiar devices are pushed in new directions with startling results — Nintendo Entertainment Systems and Game Boys roaring with futuristic floor-stomping rhythms and fist-waving melody, art-damaged Sega hardware generating fluctuating and abstracted video patterns — and that’s only the beginning. An exploration of the chiptune idiom and its close relatives, the Blip Festival is the biggest and most comprehensive event in the history of the form, and will include daily workshops, art installations, and nightly music performances boasting an international roster larger and more far-reaching than any previous event of its kind. Small sounds at large scales pushed to the limit at high volumes — the Blip Festival is an unprecedented event that is not to be missed.” – Link.
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I’m kind of an infomercial junkie, not gonna lie. During an all-nighter in college, I saw an ad for a Roomba, and I really haven’t stopped thinking about it since. That is, until I saw this creation by Evil Mad Scientist, where they modded a remote-control car to double as a floor sweeper.
Way more fun [...]
My family’s own (possibly not secret anymore) recipe. Be careful, you wallet can quickly be drained by this one.
By: trebuchet03
The following is my analysis of cooking a turkey. I will be measuring temperature and time for a 20 pound turkey cooked in a Rival brand roaster.
By: trebuchet03
Check this out and then go check out the voice controlled christmas lights they made up! Well I’ve seen many “static” Christmas lights that always stay on. Today, I will show you how you can customize your Christmas lights by using a PLC, a Programmable Logic Controller. – Link
