Splunch writes - “Nineteen-year-old Pankaj Sharma from India has invented a pair of shoes that can charge your cellphone while you are on the move - literally! By simplying walking, your cellphone can be charged within an hour’s time. The way it works is pretty simple. A dynamo is attached to the shoe, which converts the mechanical energy, generated by the act of walking, into electrical energy. A bridge rectifier converts the AC current into DC current, producing five to six volts of electricity for charging your phone.” - Link.
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Morgan writes - “I read this article in yesterday’s Times about the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. The group has been around for over 100 years, and still operates a massive library that focuses on trades and crafts, as well as a free trade school. I went by the yesterday afternoon; the library is still there, a tremendous resource for New York based makers!” - Link.
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Library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen - Link.
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Kevin Kelly’s Street Use blog has an article about jazz recordings etched into old x-ray film - “In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were recorders etched into discarded X-ray film. I’ve long sought some images. Researcher Camille Cloutier pointed me to these, collected and posted by József Hajdú.” [via] - Link.
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József Hajdú’s collection - Link.
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Nat over at our siste blog CRAFT has a good write up on these bags made from busted skateboards - “Focused in the UK makes unique looking handbags out of broken old skateboards. You can purchase these cool bags or you can sell them bits of your broken skateboard. The philosophy behind Focused from their site, “It is this idea of finding beauty in the most unexpected places that has brought about the use of skateboards and other recycled products in what we consider to be a beautiful outcome.” [via] - Link.
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Bags made from recycled skateboads @ CRAFT - Link.
Skateboard Slingshot - Link.
Custom skateboard decks, plans and tools - Link.
Design your own skateboard - Link.
Homemade Skateboard decks - Link.
Ethernet skateboard - Link.
Homemade Skateboard decks - Link.
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We’ve had a few shopping cart related projects and articles on MAKE, from a “shopper chopper” to making furniture from them, this new book The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification looks like a modern day bird watchers guide, urbanized for spotting shopping carts in the various habitats - “In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.
Working in the naturalist’s tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant […]
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This homemade cat wheel not only exercises the kitty but will dispense food in intervals - [via] - Link.
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Here’s a really neat stop motion film of retro video games using household objects - [via] - Link.
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Frogger by PES - Link.
Stop motion LEGO video - Link.
How King Kong was made…the first one - Link.
Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way - With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 - Page 129 (log in).
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I-Wei Huang @ Crabfu SteamWorks who we featured in MAKE 07 just sent his latest, a radio controlled Steam truck!- Link.
Update: I-Wei just uploaded another video, him getting pulled on skateboard! - Link.
Related:
Made On Earth - Sample PDF and videos! - Link.
Made On Earth - MAKE 07 (videos) - Link.
Make Podcast: I-Wei Huang’s Steambots - Link.
Steam powered archives - Link.
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Garnet Hertz’s roach controlled bot is making the rounds around the web, here’s a really good video (that I haven’t seen) of it in action - Link.
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Made on Earth - Reports from the world of backyard technology, including a cockroach-controlled robot, high altitude glider, student-built cyclotron, Vee 9 solar vehicle, robotic CD burner, coffee mug ramjet, and more. MAKE 02 - Page 14.
Autonomous cockroach control system - Link.
HOW TO - Raising cockroaches (intentionally) - Link.
Fish piloted vehicle - Link.
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These farmers aren’t messing around, they are drag racing on completely tricked out tractors - [via] - Link (photo gallery).
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