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Great balls of fire! Make your own Chemistry lab...Yesterday

Photography courtesy of Chemical Heritage Foundation (top left, bottom right); by Dustin Fenstermacher (top right, bottom left). Why old chemistry sets were better — and how to make your own today by Keith Hammond.

It's true: chemistry sets today don’t measure up to the classic kits that once scorched Formica kitchen tables across the nation. But you can still find respectable kits if you know where to look. More importantly, anyone can make their own flaming, fuming, booming DIY chemistry set as good as those from the golden age — or better.

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Lessons In Electric Circuits: Free textbooks about electronicsYesterday

This is an amazing collection of textbooks that will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about electronics and electricity. OK, maybe not everything, but they are FREE! You can even download all the volumes, including source code, in a single click.

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Open source Jay-Z video by Evan RothDecember 3

Evan Roth made this totally sweet open-code Jay-Z video! The word "Brooklyn" creates images on screen and it's the fist rap video where you can download the source code. Via Buzzfeed.

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• Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners
  

"New Era" hat

Public domain donor

Graffiti taxonomy


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HOW TO - display RSS feeds with ArduinoDecember 3

Ross writes -

This project is a python script that outputs facebook status updates to an arduino connected serial LCD. It is really just an rss reader, so it could be set up to parse just about any rss feed from weather to stocks to email.

Very cool and useful! Read his detailed how-to to get up and running. - Arduino based rss reader

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How To - Use an LCD with Arduino

Bare Bones Arduino Board Kit (Unassembled)

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