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CRAFT Thanksgiving roundup
We have some special Thanksgiving recipes on CRAFT to make your feast extra delicious. Check 'em all out!
Thanksgiving Feast: How-To Brine & Roast a Turkey
Thanksgiving Feast: Side Dishes
Thanksgiving Feast: Pumpkin Pie with Caramel Pecan Topping
Homemade Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream
How-To: Bake a Turkey-Shaped Cake
Posted by Becky Stern | 3:59 PM in Crafts, Holiday projects | | Discuss (0)
3D renderings of the Mandelbrot set
A big Keanu "Whoa" over these gorgeous 3D renderings of fractals. The article offers a fascinating back story about the 20-year quest to adequately display a Mandelbulb, such a 3D analog rendering of a Mandelbrot set. The Unraveling of...
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New in the Maker Shed: Microbe Motel kit
The MAKE Microbe Motel isn't one of those toy science kits you use up and throw away, or that kids walk away from ten minutes after they open it. You can use the Microbe Motel to do scores of experiments and projects with microbes.
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Science through graphic novels
Science Friday's "Science Through Graphic Novels"... Great interview(s)! Using graphic novels to teach science... In this segment, we'll take a look at two graphic novels that approach science from a different direction. One tackles Darwin's 'Origin of Species,' while...
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Tiny solar-powered brass engine in a wineglass
This is the work of Szymon Klimek, whose work has been honored by the Internet Craftsmanship Museum. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
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Maker Shed kiosks at Fry's
We're ecstatic about the fact that we now have Maker Shed kiosks, with magazines, books, and electronics kits, in several California Fry's stores. We think this is big news, not only for Maker Media, but for all indie makers...
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New hackerspace in Chicagoland: Workshop 88
Good news for those in Chicagoland! Planning is underway to form Workshop 88, a hackerspace in the west suburbs of Chicago. Here's your chance to get in on the ground floor!
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Mint tin electronics dev kit packs the essentials
From the MAKE Flickr pool Once you've caught the 'electronics bug', spending time away from the workbench/lab can seem an unpleasant prospect. Luckily, one can carry on learning and experimenting with a minimal amount of hardware. Nick shares his...
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Olympus BioScapes competition winners
Olympus BioScapes competition winners, amazing photos!...
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Mac mailbox
Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland......
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LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009
LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009, good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos here......
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Building a shop presence notification system
As a member of Hack Pittsburgh, our local hackerspace, one thing I've often wondered is if anyone else is there. Well, so did Andy Leer and Marty McGuire, so they decided to build a shop presence notification system.
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Vacuum tube prototyping board
Bruce Heran made this prototyping board for his tube projects. He writes: This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the...
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Free LED Cookbook from TI
By way of Andrew Q Righter of HacDC comes word of this free PDF from Texas Instruments, a 41-page "cookbook" of circuit designs and application notes for TI's LED-related components. [Thanks, Andrew!] LED Reference Design Cookbook [PDF]...
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How-To: Open source intervalometer for Canon, Nikon cameras
Instructables user peterdr has put together a really excellent tutorial on how to build his CT-1 open-source hardware intervalometer for Canon and Nikon digital cameras. There's more info about the project at his personal website, and a parts kit is for sale on Amazon.com.
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PYMT, a multi-touch library for Python
Interested in building programs with fancy multi-touch interfaces? Speak Python? Well, in that case you might want to have a look at PYMT.
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Make: Projects - Pneumatic trough, part II
Last week I wrote about how to construct a simple sheet metal "bridge," which, in combination with an ice cube bucket and a jelly jar, makes an effective pneumatic trough for collecting gas samples over water. This week I'm going to show you how to use this apparatus to generate and collect pure oxygen, and how to use that oxygen to observe the brilliant blue flame of sulfur oxidation.
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Cardboard tube battle
My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting.
The Boston Globe covered the preparations:
The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party.
The weapons are cylindrical pieces of thick cardboard about 4 feet long. The appeal, explains young-adult librarian Ellen Snoeyenbos: "It's totally ridiculous.''
As word of mock combat with reliably harmless weaponry spread among the town's youthful warriors, Snoeyenbos and the Bookmarks seized on the fund-raiser as a chance to exploit their discovery of the fighting fad made popular by YouTube.
Saturday's event will feature one-on-one tournaments, guild-on-guild skirmishes (up to 10 fighters per team), "and an all-out battle for possession of the Royal Crown,'' according to the club.
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Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Gifts for dads
There's a funny thing about dads' toys. Very often, kids borrow dad's supposedly grown-up toys and dad plays with toys designed for a much younger demographic. With that in mind, we present the Gifts for Dads list, filled with stuff that may appeal to more than one generation in your household.
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