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MAKE Magazine In This Issue... How-To: Build a fake Google Street View car Removing eccentric weights from pager motors Triceracopter Curtain made from film slides Bug 2.0 - OMAP3, BeagleBoard compatible and Android development support Atomic emission spectrum scarf Handmade synth senses wireless activity Happy Birthdays: Galileo Galilei -- Father of modern science More Recent Articles How-To: Build a fake Google Street View car My favorite pranksters in the Fatlab (Free Art & Technology) visited Berlin for the Transmediale festival, during which they replicated a Google Street View car and toured around town filming skits like asking for directions and lurking in front of the Chinese embassy. Check out the site for a video of it in action and PDF instructions for building your own Street View car. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Culture jamming | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Removing eccentric weights from pager motors Over at the Robot Room, Dave Cook has a brief piece on removing the eccentric weight from pager/cellphone/force-feedback joysticks motors. It really is basically a firm pull with a pair of locking pliers, but you need to do it correctly so as not to bend the drive shaft or mar the motor casing. Tiny Motor -- Removing the weight from tiny vibrating motor Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Robotics | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Triceracopter This work, subtitled "Hope for the Obsolescence of War," was completed in 1977 by the late American sculptor Patricia A. Renick. There's more pictures over on Gizmodo. [via Geekologie] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Curtain made from film slides Becky spotted this "kodachrome curtain" from Flickr user yarnzombie in the CRAFT Flickr pool this week. Besides the coolness of the idea itself, this is a great example of the power of a good photograph to sell your project. Gorgeous shot! [via CRAFT] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Photography | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Bug 2.0 - OMAP3, BeagleBoard compatible and Android development support Bug 2.0!... OMAP3, BeagleBoard compatible and Android development support - solid 2.0 release! Today's a big day for the BUG team. We are reporting to you from the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain with some really exciting news and some really incredible demos (be sure to check back for updates as they come in). If you have not yet heard the big news, we announced this morning a new addition to the BUG family of products – BUG 2.0. The second generation BUG will be a big leap forward for our little rapid prototyping device. We will be releasing plenty of details in the coming months on all of the planned enhancements, but right now all we can tell you is that the new BUG will have support for Android development and will be based on the Texas Instruments OMAP3 platform, allowing for full BeagleBoard compatibility. We are always looking to bring the open hardware movement to larger and larger communities of developers, and BUG 2.0 will meet that goal in a very big way. If you would like more info, be sure to check out the full press release HERE. We will have many more updates coming out of Barcelona from Monday to Thursday. Be sure to check back often for the latest from Peter, the BUG team, and some of the incredible businesses we are working with on the ground here at the conference. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Open source hardware | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Atomic emission spectrum scarf Our very own inimitable Becky Stern makes and sells these beautiful custom scarves featuring the atomic emission spectrum of your favorite element. Shown above is the "silicon" version (as modeled by AdaFruit's likewise inimitable Limor Fried) but you can choose whichever element/spectrum you like. And here's a handy-dandy Java applet from The University of Oregon that makes it easy to browse for your selection. Minimalists may prefer hydrogen or helium, but for my money it's hard to pass up the rainbow-y goodness of, say, iron or tantalum. Want! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Chemistry | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Handmade synth senses wireless activity Yoshi Akai's Wireless Catcher analog synth derives control input from nearby wireless signals picked up by an onboard antennae. As if that weren't interesting enough, the copper control panel sports some elegant decorative flourishes typical of his impressive body of work. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Happy Birthdays: Galileo Galilei -- Father of modern science Happy birthday Galileo Galilei... Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy," the "father of modern physics," the "father of science," and "the Father of Modern Science." Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science." Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • More Recent Articles CRAFT weekly recap Unusual mechanism: The rolleron Make: Together (more collaborative couples) Lego Segway needs only NXT 2.0 parts Using snow to see heat transfer

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