Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Looks like fun and it’s just made of paper.
Here’s a SAFE way to destroy vampires… use a catapult to toss bundles
of stakes at them from a distance! This game includes a functional catapult
(with a range of up to 10 feet), a dozen bundles of stakes and a vampire’s
grave to use as a target. The grave includes a coffin, stone vault and gravel
pit. Build your own medieval war machine and let the impaling begin!
[via paper forest]
The Catapult
Wow. This is just an amazing display of elite Theremin skills.
What is a Theremin? It’s an instrument that is played by disrupting an electric field with your bodies natural capacitance. The disruption produced odd and ethereal tones.
[via boingboing]
Laughing Squid » Theremin Cover Version of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy
Wikipedia – Theremin
Very good to see the crew made it back safe and sound.
Space Shuttle Atlantis descended to a smooth landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station. With Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot Lee Archambault at the controls, Atlantis landed at 3:49 p.m. EDT on Friday
Quite amazing. I hope he builds some more computer parts out of wood.
… a few months ago, I had an idea as to how the divide by two mechanisms from my first marble machine could be cascaded together to actually function as a sort of adder or counter. Once I had that idea, I knew I had to try it at some point, and recently, I finally got around to building my marble binary adding machine.
The space shuttle Atlantis may have to stay on orbit a while longer until the weather decides to clear up.
Uncooperative weather at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., forced flight controllers to pass on STS-117’s first landing attempt today. The crew and the Mission Control team have turned their attention to the next orbit, which has opportunities available in Florida and at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
NASA TV Schedule
NASA – Space Shuttle mission status
Kennedy Space Center Video Feeds (link 2)
Astounding!
I personally think that this should be standard fare in a marching band. Just think of it for a second, it’s perfect. Loud enough to be heard over the roar of the crowd, easy to play (keyboard interface?), and it includes it’s own light show! Sure, it might take twenty people to haul the batteries around behind it but that is a small price to pay for something as spectacular as this.
And just think of it in a battle of the bands. Put one of these on the point of your formation and the competition will drop like flies. You might need to insulate the musicians that have to march near it but that would sort itself out I would think.
[via boingboing]