A few days ago a purchased a bismuth crystal off of eBay for pretty cheap.  Bismuth is a grey metal with a few interesting properties.  In addition to being the active ingredient in Pepto Bismol, when it is cooled slowly, it forms square spirals in a stair-stepped shape.  During this process, it forms an oxide layer that causes interference  with reflected light [...]

So much of movement is invisible to the human eye. Sure, our eyes can see a cymbal move when struck by a drum stick. But it’s what our eyes can’t see that is most captivating. Metal rippling as if it were fabric fluttering in the wind, droplets of water bouncing and hovering just above the [...]

A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients–powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making. http://www.theprintinginkcompany.ca/

This is a time lapse experiment that I have been tinkering with for the last month.  I wanted to try a new work flow based around raw images instead of JPEG images.  Every frame was captured as a raw image and imported in to an Aperture 3 library.  From there, I batch processed the images [...]

My 500 GB iMac SATA hard drive died the other day.  After replacing it, I wanted to have a little fun before discarding the drive.  See the disassembly photos after the jump.

I just found a great new application in the Android Marketplace: My Tracks (QR Code Below)  Essentially, it takes your Android phone and converts it to a GPS data logger.  You can use it to analyze your running patterns or you can simply export the raw data to Google Docs, Google Maps, Twitter & Email [...]

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This is a follow up to my post on the Alco MSM-5a from about a month ago. This is an unexceptional mosaic readout display but the major differences, that I can tell, between this and the 5A is that this one is a little bit smaller, it cannot be easily disassembled and it includes a [...]

This is a time lapse video a made on Saturday, August 22nd from 2PM to 10PM.  Photos were taken at 15 second intervals with a Canon 5D Mark II and 24-105 f/4 L lens.  The camera was set to aperature priority at F/12 to ensure a balance between focus and sufficient light for the evening [...]

I re-discovered this game recently. The last time I played it was on my parents’ AT&T 6300 with CGA graphics!  It is actually a really good game.  It is a table tennis variation with a breakaway wall in different shapes.  Some bricks drop pill-shape items down that change your paddle size, number of balls it [...]