Worlds smallest Rube Goldberg machine? (via Melvin The Mini Machine - THE REEL)

(via MakeShop | Making Makers)
Pittsburg Makeshop

(via MakeShop | Making Makers)

Pittsburg Makeshop

Carbide lamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Janet suggested doing a workshop where you make a miner’s lamp…

(via Connected Learning Infographic | Connected Learning)

First Sounds was established in 2007 by David Giovannoni, Patrick Feaster, Richard Martin, and Meagan Hennessey. It made news in 2008 when it identified and played back one of humanity’s first recordings of its own voice. The recording was made in 1860 (17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph!) by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his phonautograph, a device that scratched airborne sound waves onto a sheet of soot-blackened paper. Although Scott made the recording to study visually, First Sounds’ collaborators undertook an intensive and successful effort to play it back.

solar automata? (via Build Your Own Automata / Mindfest ‘04)

PirateBox DIY OpenWrt - David Darts Wiki

Run Linux on your Dockstar, GoFlex, or Pogoplug NAS

Ted? 2nd from end on right side.

Ted? 2nd from end on right side.

Thoughts on Code Year, Codecademy, and Learning to Code
By going one click away from this post you’ll see that I’ve spent the last twelve years writing books specifically geared to the newbie coder—

Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code

Moment of Zen – Snowflakes

Tip-Top Tape Top Tutorial

Amazing Marble Catapult

Texting Glove for the hearing impaired

What you see here in the picture is exactly what you think it is. The Texting Glove is essentially a device where you can use sign language to create a text message.

This device was…