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• Volkemon in Space: Additional launch pics February 8, 2010
  Our favorite armchair astronaut, Rachel, is sleeping off all the adrenalin and excitement of covering the STS-130 launch for MAKE. (Great job, Rach!) So, we crowd-sourced a few more pictures from Make: Online member Volkemon, who was also on-hand for the big blast-off. Here are a couple of his pics (that's him and his mom in the top one, the cau […]
• "Batteries Out of Thin Air" February 8, 2010
  Gray Matter: Batteries Out of Thin Air @ Popular Science... A battery that runs on air? Why, that’s almost as good as a car that runs on water! Those cars are fantasy, but batteries that run on air are actually quite common, especially among older people. Tiny zinc-air batteries are widely used in hearing aids, where they have replaced toxic mercury-based […]
• From typewriter to teleprinter February 8, 2010
  Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user numist had a typerwriter that he wasn't using anymore, so he converted it into a teleprinter. What's that? It turns out that teleprinters are the basically a printer and a keyboard put together in a single device, but not directly connected. Instead, both are connected to a remote computer using a […]
• Turning a motor into a sensor with the Peppermill February 8, 2010
  Tom Igoe got his hands on a Peppermill circuit board, and took it out for a spin: Nicolas Villar sent me a sample of the PepperMill, a new sensor board he and Steve Hodges designed at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. It's a nifty little board. You attach a DC motor and the board can an output voltage when the motor is turned, and analog signa […]