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Their work looks like so much fun.

This site has a transistor clock. Made with no IC’s! Just tons of transister, diodes, capacitors and resistors. Amazing, I’d love to build something like this I don’t know I have the patience.

Airduino Scungy Anemometer I’ve been a large fan (no pun intended) of this blog for a while. Although here Keith shows the true ingenuity and usefulness of knowing how to create and construct things like this. A great thorough explanation of ingenuity and reused components to keep oneself cool.

Scott Johnston has a project to take google earth data and run it though his CNC mill to produce a physical model of the geographic terrain. Brilliant idea, and very interesting.

Since the announcement of the Google X prize, plenty of company and schools are competing to get to the moon. Team FREDNET - Race to the Moon is an open source collaboration to build a community to accomplish the task. I think it’s a brilliant idea. They have to raise the funding […]

No I don’t mean that crappy plastic board. Some students made this Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476 it’s a horse hair board that is a very complex but well done project. It’s worth the read to find out how they did the dart detection alone.

Next big future has an entry titled Rewritable holograms will revolutionize medicine and advertising, it’s about a group at University of Arizona who created a rewritable 3d hologram. It’s apparently pretty fast and they’re working on a full color version. They talk about advertisements and TV, but I wonder about it’s impact on […]

MAKE: Blog: LED art all over Boston today is a post that talks about the art installations commemorating the chaos caused by the LED mooninites last year. At least the police realize this time that they’re not bombs, this time.

I’m a big fan of open source, and I’m a big fan of electronics. Naturally this project, MAKE: Low cost open source VGA compatible video card sparked my interest. It’s an open hardware VGA card. Meaning that if you were so inclined you could buy all the component parts, download the eagle […]

MIT in it’s infinite wisdom has already made all it’s courses available online via Open Course Ware. Since they’ve done this they’ve now released the material for their 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer: PS3 Cell Programming. Dig in and learn some parallel algorithm and other geeky things.