How do you photograph a 300' tall tree in a dense forest with no clear sight lines? Wildlife photographer Michael Nichols did it by taking a bunch of close-ups using a special camera rig and stitching them together digitally. NPR has the full story. [via Hack-a-Day] Read more | Permalink | Comments | ...
The relatively straightforward swing-hinged dissection of an equilateral triangle to a square in this video is called "Dudeney's dissection" and has been known since 1902. For a gallery of hinged d[...]
The Melting Pot is an older 'visualizer' project, however it was way ahead of it's time. Developed back in 2001 by Itiro Siio and Noyuri Mima, it's purpose is to bridge the physical distance betw[...]
As part of a course at the United States Military Academy at West Point, maker Roy D. Ragsdale developed a prototype Street View-like camera using a laptop, $300 in off-the-shelf components, and o[...]
Our copy chief, Keith Hammond, circulated this in internal Maker Media email. It's from a piece on Washington Post columnist Joel Achenbach's blog, from back in June. Advice to graduates: Become an e[...]
Get your boards printed by a pro-service for a longer-lasting, better-looking project... By MAKE contributor Mikey @ PopSci! Read more | Permalink | Comments | [...]
New design equations let you pick equal capacitor values and solve for the resistors to achieve any desired gain in one stage. [...]
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The relatively straightforward swing-hinged dissection of an equilateral triangle to a square in this video is called "Dudeney's dissection" and has been known since 1902. For a gallery of hinged d[...]
The Melting Pot is an older 'visualizer' project, however it was way ahead of it's time. Developed back in 2001 by Itiro Siio and Noyuri Mima, it's purpose is to bridge the physical distance betw[...]
Adding to the high and low ends of its spectrum-analyzer family at the same time, Agilent has covered the bases with the launches of its N9000A CXA low-cost analyzers and its N9030A PXA high-end instr[...]