PUMPOTRON 3000 XL
PumpoTron 3000 from Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken on Vimeo. Get the files for laser cutting your own pump at www.thingiverse.com.
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Ancient Cray Memory
This is an image of actual Cray Super Computer Memory… each of those little rings, is one bit of visible read once memory. Man has electrical engineering come a long way since then… The opportunity to photograph this epic piece…
Blockparty a US Demoscene Event
Last year I made my nearly annual journey to Cleveland Ohio for one of my personal favorite conferences, Notacon. Notacon has never been a purely “tech” conference, but instead focuses on the areas where tech meets art and creativity. As…
Sunlight, Wind, Micropower and You
We have a pretty neat class coming up this Saturday. It’s a beginners look at powering small devices with very small energy sources. Not only will you be saving the world, but you’ll learn a thing or two about electronics…
Solder cheap!
Once again we are offering our basic soldering class. But for the holidays we’ve dropped the price from $35 to a mere $20. This is insanely cheap. We have gone insane. This Sunday at 2PM:
Xbee Ninja Wireless Gloves
The awesome teaching team of Kate Hartman and Rob Faludi ran a workshop today on Wireless Wearables. They covered what wireless is and isn’t (“calling it wireless is about as accurate as calling it tomatoless”), how to choose materials for…
Working Ham Satellites, Part 1
Bill (KD4ISF), Diana (KC2UHB), and I (W2VV) spent a couple of hours at the shop this afternoon building a dual-band Yagi antenna for working ham satellites. Yes, believe it or not, there are multiple satellites orbiting the earth right now…
Jeff’s 48 Touches
Jeff of Snyderphonics dropped in the other day to lazzzor up some silicon gaskets for the Manta. He was beset by a crowd as soon as we noticed what he had. The manta is a 48 pseudo-pressure sensitive interface with…
Processing + Arduino class this Saturday, now half off!
You’ve got your Processing in my Arduino! No, You’ve got your Arduino in my Processing! Come learn the glory that is hooking up real space to code space. We’ll take apart my Spooky Box, learn how it works, and you’ll…
Mr. Fusion
We headed to Orchard Street on the island last night, planning to check out the Gizmodo Gallery. It was late when we got there and the gates were down. We were just about resigned to pressing our noses to the…