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NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition

Want to design robots that excavate on the moon? I thought so. NASA is running a competition called Lunabotics for undergrad and grad students. The deadline for team registration is February 28, 2010. There are cash prizes and VIP Kennedy launch tickets up for grabs! [Thanks, Rachel!]

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• Handmade telescope
• First computer on the moon
• Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969
• Your own personal moon
• Glow in the dark moon table

Posted by Becky Stern | 11:00 AM in Education, Robotics | | Discuss (0)

Focus drill for fine video

The latest crop of high-end DSLR cameras are capable of shooting beautiful video, however they can be difficult to use because they cannot autofocus while in movie mode. Read More

Amazing model landscape photography

This is not, in fact, an actual volcano. It is, rather, the work of Matthew Albanese, a photographer who builds meticulously detailed landscape models and then lights and shoots them to achieve amazing realism. You can view more of his work here. My personal favorite is the Martian landscape made from paprika and charcoal. [via Neatorama] Read More

Interactive napping screen

Kerry Jia Yi Lin designed this "hermit" shelter for public napping. While I agree with Syuzi Pakhchyan that the use of RFID to open and close the shelter is a bit of overkill, the servo-conrolled opening and closing of... Read More

Pedal Thresher from L-MIT's InvenTeams

Last June, the folks from Make: television teamed up with the Lemelson-MIT Program to capture stories from young inventors at the 2009 Eurekafest. They wanted to find out what inspires young people to invent, what the invention process taught... Read More

My toilets runneth over

It's like one of those champagne fountains at a wedding. Except, you know, made of toilets. And running water (er, one hopes) instead of booze. A "Duchampagne" fountain, perhaps? No, SRSLY: It's a 2005 installation called "American Standard" by Vancouver artist Reece Terris. [via Boing to the Boing] Read More

The Nebulophone Arduino-based stylus synth

Yet still another sweet piece of kit debuted at Austin's monthly Handmade Music event - the Nebulophone from Bleep Labs incorporates a digital synth running on Arduino compatible hardware with a stylophone-like PCB keyboard. Additional features include a light-controlled... Read More

Multi-touch on Android 2.1

What gives with multi-touch on the Android OS? Earlier this month when asked about multi-touch on the Nexus One, Google seemed a little touchy about it. It would seem both the hardware and software support multi-touch, but you won't see it implemented in any of the built-in applications. That's OK because folks like cyanogen go out of their way to explore the possibilities. Read More

Nokia N900 running Android

Mobile hacker Brandon Roberts has managed to shoehorn Android onto his N900 along with the Maemo 5 OS for a dual boot setup. Read More

In the Maker Shed: Mechamo Inchworm kit

The Gakken Mechamo Inchworm kit is a perfect project to build on any cold winter day. Stay inside, grab a hot chocolate, and get started on your robotic insect collection. The Maker Shed is proud to be the exclusive distributor in North America for these brilliant kits, part of Gakken's Mechanical Animals Series. Read More

Make: Projects - Periodic table elements collection cabinet

About two years ago it first occurred to me that what I wanted, to display my elements, was something like a spice rack, but in the shape of the periodic table. I looked around online for a suitable commercial product and couldn't find one at a reasonable price that met my expectations. So I decided to build my own. This article is about how I did it. Read More

CRAFT weekly recap

This week on CRAFT, we saw: Dr. Who Soft TARDIS How-To: Set Drywall Anchors Recipe: Vegetarian French Onion Soup... Read More

Lego 1:40 USS Intrepid

Ed Diment is working on a minifig-scale aircraft carrier. The picture above shows an anti-aircraft battery -- imagine the detail on the entire ship!... Read More

PopMech's top 10 tech concepts for 2010

Are you hip to DNA origami, anthropomimetic machines, and ultracapacitors? If not, you may want to check out Popular Mechanics' 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2010. What do you think, readers? What important technology for 2010... Read More

Dream workshop

Flickr user Mtneer sure has a sweet setup! Click on the link to see a bunch more photos of this workshop and some older ones he's had. I'm conflicted, however: on one hand, I'm concerned at how neat his... Read More

Sudoku puzzle solver using awk

The application I chose to use as an example is "yet another sudoku puzzle solver". This program uses a very simple depth-first recursive backtracking algorithm with up-front and ongoing elimination of invalid entries. Read More

iMac shelf...

Nice homemade back-of-iMac shelf solution, I'm sure this will be a product soon :) Dylan writes - 5" x 8" x 1/2" oak cut at an angle to match the slant of the iMac stand. Drilled all the way... Read More

Post-disaster shelters

Around the world, people are preparing systems to deploy in emergencies like the earthquake in Haiti, the Asian Tsunami of a few years ago and other situations such as hurricanes, floods, fires and the aftermath of war. Medical personnel are crucial, but their stuff needs to be with them, and they need a place to work. Below are a number of shelters that can be delivered and set up in places of need around the world. The people developing these systems are working hard, often with little funding and driven by their passion to create better designs. The projects below are all in some phase of the Design Process, and each could have its place in a variety of challenging situations. Each community has its' own traditions of architecture, and the materials available vary by region. The designers of long term structures need to remain sensitive to these local realities. Read More

Remake: MacBook hidden in an actual book

This thing is called BookBook and it's available from TwelveSouth for $80. Would be an easy remake, though, if you could find an appropriately-sized book. [via Geekologie] Read More

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Weekend Project: Remote-Controlled Camera Mount
Turn your R/C car into a secret spy vehicle with this simple project. Thanks go to Ben Wendt for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Remote-Controlled Camera Mount video click here and subscribe in iTunes.... More

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Amplify Your Gamer Guitar Perhaps you have built an NES "cigar box"-style 'Gamer Guitar' (book p. 193) and learned to play a few tunes, but you have decided that it is just not loud enough. No matter how hard you wail on yo…

Test Tube Flower Vase This is a variation on a flower vase that I've wanted to do for some time that uses test tubes to arrange individual flowers.  The sometimes daunting, monolith quality of the conventional flower …

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