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Vintage Software Documentation Purse | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. Vintage Software Documentation Purse. December 26, 2007. There are many sets of instructions (here’s one from HGTV. For bags based on books. You can also look to Etsy. For inspiration (e.g. Tarzan. All pieces are cut to include a 1/4″ seam allowance. The pieces include:. X2 strips for the ends, folded over (5.5″ x 15.75″). X2 sides, 1/4″ ironed down for top edge (9.25″ x 8.25″). At this stage I couldn̵...
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Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern. October 21, 2006. It’s a pumpkin! It’s a Jack-o-lantern! It’s an electronics project! It’s… a Cylon! Are great. They’re evil, menacing, and shiny. They have glowing red lights. Computer-monotone voices, and they aim as precisely as imperial stormtroopers. For halloween this year, we made Cylon Jack-o-lanterns. In both large and small versions. How well does it work? Let’s...
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South Indian Restaurant Menu Decoder Ring | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. South Indian Restaurant Menu Decoder Ring. March 11, 2009. For years, we’ve enjoyed eating out at South Indian restaurants– they often have exceptionally interesting food. They are almost invariably vegetarian, so it is generally safe– even for non-carnivores –to order anything off of the menu. And what if you can’t remember what uthappam is? Pdf] and Udupi Palace. So you need a decoder ring! 800 kB PDF) f...
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Digi-Comp II: First Edition | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. Digi-Comp II: First Edition. December 6, 2012. We’re pleased to finally announce availability of our brand new, long-awaited kit, the Digi-Comp II: First Edition. It’s a modern, fully-operational recreation of the original Digi-Comp II. The classic 1960 s educational computer kit CNC routed from hardwood plywood. To show how it works. We have also written about our smaller wooden prototypes. One of the nic...
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Making a Frabjous | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. June 17, 2009. George W. Hart. Is a professor at Stony Brook and is one of our favorite artists, making a wide variety of stunning geometric sculptures. On his of his many works that has particularly captivated us for some time is a sculpture called. When we realized that George had posted a template for this sculpture we. Grabbed the cardboard and hot glue, and raced to build our own. On its web page.
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Duplex cookie games | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. April 11, 2007. Duplex cookies bring a whole new level of literalness to the phrase “playing with your food.” These two-toned sandwich cookies beg to be used for board games such as Othello and checkers (or Go. If you have a lot of cookies). All you need are cookies, a large piece of paper and a pen. We made a stop-motion video of a few minutes of playing games with the cookies, Check it out on youtube.
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A visit to the electronics markets of Shenzhen | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. A visit to the electronics markets of Shenzhen. March 3, 2009. I’ve just returned from a week long trip to Shenzhen, China in a “geek tour” trip organized by Bunnie Huang. With some assistance from the fine folks at PCH International. More than just a tour, this was also a tiny conference of open source and physical computing hardware hackers. Myself (Windell Oskay), Tom Igoe. 8216;s Los Angeles. For me pe...
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The Egg-Bot Kit | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. September 8, 2010. We have mentioned Eggbot several times this year as we demonstrated it at Maker Faires in San Mateo and Detroit, as well as at the California state fair. And today, we’re very pleased to (finally) reveal the the design of our new kit. So what’s an Eggbot? It’s worthwhile to point out that there’s actually quite a bit of history here. Above, you can see how we adjust the eggbot adjusted f...
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StippleGen 2 | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. June 13, 2012. Two months ago, we introduced StippleGen. A program that can generate stipple diagrams and “TSP path” art from images, using Adrian Secord’s algorithm. Of weighted Voronoi stippling. It’s a great (and free) tool for turning a photo into CNC-ready artwork, for use on the Eggbot. Or in other contexts. It comes ready to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and it is available for download now. Of St...
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Circuitry Snacks | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Making the world a better place, one Evil Mad Scientist at a time. July 11, 2007. Here we present what is arguably the tastiest way to design and learn about electronic circuits: make circuitry snacks! You can simulate the green “solder mask” layer on printed circuit boards by spraying your graham crackers with aerosol food coloring. It’s not particularly pleasant stuff, being spray paint and all. It leaves your boards slightly moist to the touch...The part. Advanced ...
