Grandpa’s Magical toys Customer Review: Grandpa’s Magical toys
This movie is wonderful for children of any age. They will learn songs, hand games, and also about friendship. They will also learn that you are never to old to have a childlike heart.

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Here’s an Instructable on how to make an old school fly trap from a 2 liter bottle and a leftover food container. Fly Trap - Link [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Shape-Shifting Robot Bird Flies, Spies
The “RoboSwift” mimics a bird that can fly for three years without landing.

Giant Microbes - $5.95
Infectiously cute and highly huggable, Microbes are modeled on the nasty little bugs that float around causing all manner of medical mayhem. The difference is, these fluffy critters are a million times bigger, and contagious for all the right reasons.

Controling High-Current Devices Via Microcontrollers
The latest piece on uC Hobby explains how-to use low-amperage microcontroller signals to control high-current devices. Among other things, it explains how to use transistors to get from the logic of a MCU to the power needs of a motor. uC Meets BJT - [via] Link [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

T-Equalizer - $29.95
Who’d have guessed that being a flasher could be so entertaining? It is when you wear this battery-operated T-shirt, because your chest becomes a pulsating graphic equalizer that reacts to the music around it..

Plus Deck Cassette Converter - $129.95
Rediscover the music trapped on your old tapes with this ingenious gizmo that allows you to play and convert audio cassettes on your PC. Simply install in a spare slot and pump up the jam! (Or something like that).

Rogue taxidermy
Nate Hill turns discarded dead animals in to art… warning dead creatures ahead, don’t click the links if that freaks you out - If you live in Bed-Stuy and happen to hear the sound of trash cans being banged around at night, don’t assume it’s a rat or a homeless person. It might be Nate Hill, 29, a local artist who often spends his evenings rummaging through garbage for his medium of choice: dead animals. Hill, who earned a biology degree and once worked as a lab technician, is a self-styled “rogue taxidermist,” who uses the parts of deceased critters for his work. He’s quite aware that many people find his idea of art repulsive. “I’ve had bottles thrown at me,” he says nonchalantly. “I’ve been threatened, but I just don’t care. I think I’m on to something!”ROGUE TAXIDERMY - [via] Link & Animal house - Link. More: Nate Hill’s stop road kill - Link.Rogue Taxidermist Shows You How to Fish for Animal Parts - Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Make your own Moonbeam
Earlier in the week, we covered the Boston Globe piece about the Moonbeam, a three-wheel microcar. Bre Pettis pointed me to builder Jory Squibb’s website where he has background info, numerous pics, video and a “How to Build Moonbeam” project journal. How to build Moonbeam, a 100 MPG microcar - Link [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Make a Tabletop Biosphere - Make: Video Podcast
Click To Play mp4 | mov | hd-appletv| 3gp |3g2 | itunes | blip | youtube | pdf This weekend, watch the video, download the pdf and create a closed system to live on your windowsill! If you have an aquarium, you probably have all the chemicals you need for this. If you have to buy new chemicals, you ll have enough for hundreds of biospheres! - Subscribe Link Weekend Projects is sponsored by Microchip Technology. Check out their seminars and the Microchip Masters Conference. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

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