The theremin is a very cool device that is enjoying some what of a comeback these days. I’ll have to build one and place the speaker and antennas outside my front door. When someone goes to knock they will make weird music. Might scare them off too!
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MAKE Link-a-Palooza!
Whee! Lazy link day. I should just cut and paste the entire MAKE site it’s just that good!
I’m still waiting for my copy to come in the mail. I saw it at Borders today and I’d a little worried that it might have become ‘lost’ somewhere. Anyone else having this problem?
Ah, the good old Marx generator. These things are fun to build, just don’t let them bite you! Same can ge said about leyden jars I might add…
MAKE: Blog: Build your own Marx Generator
Too cool!
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Music projects are always fun to build. I wonder if I could attach one of these to my cell phone…
MAKE: Blog: Tonepad – DIY Music Projects
I did the same thing for a bit less I think. B&W film is fun to develope at home, nowdays you just scan them and you don’t have to mess with an enlarger. I just wish I had a scanner with less scratched glass and some anti Newton ring surface to it so I could get sharper images.
MAKE: Blog: Make a Photo Lab For $49.38
Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads
Smart birds with a taste for frog livers may be behind the whole exploding toad epidemic? If this is true then it just goes to show you that sometimes the simpler explanations are the better ones. I can beleive that crows could learn this trick, I’ve seen them unwrap food in plastic wrappers in Japan. Clever buggers.
Birds May Be Behind Exploding German Toads
Voyager 1 Enters the Heliosheath
Way to go! Now hopefuly the funding will stay with the program so scientists will be able to use the new data received.
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled so far in our Solar System that it’s reached the heliosheath. This is an area just past the termination shock region, where the solar wind crashes into the thin interstellar gas of the galaxy. It was difficult to detect exactly when Voyager 1 passed through the termination shock and into the heliosheath, because we have no data about interstellar space yet, just calculations.
Is The Odd Spot on Titan Proof Of…
Scientists have discovered a large hot area on the surface of Titian, a moon of Saturn.
The spot, approximately the size and shape of West Virginia, is just southeast of the bright region called Xanadu and is visible to multiple instruments on the Cassini spacecraft.
The 483-kilometer-wide (300-mile) region may be a “hot” spot — an area possibly warmed by a recent asteroid impact or by a mixture of water ice and ammonia from a warm interior, oozing out of an ice volcano onto colder surrounding terrain. Other possibilities for the unusual bright spot include landscape features holding clouds in place or unusual materials on the surface.
Could it be a strange new form of geological action? Could this be the proof that there may be life on this distant moon? How soon will the crack pot fringe loonies jump on this one? Only time will tell, and when it does I’ll be there…
Odd Spot on Titan Baffles Scientists
Eating out of toilets?
Oh how nice… I’m guessing the napkins come on a roll too, right?
Eating out of toilets? It’s all the rage in Kaohsiung
(Thank you Eugene for this tidbit of tasty news)