Coloring and Aging Wood Planks with Simple Painting Techniques
Looking for a warm and comfortable feel for a room in your house? Explore how you can turn new wood planks into those that look like weathered barn wood with a few simple paint techniques. This re-do of our den was done with a board and batten wainscoting but the wood treatments can be done on mos...
Small Paper Bags for your Small Gifts
A simple way to make creative and different paper bags for your small gifts.You can make paper bags any size with this simple technique. The problem I had a problem! I had these awesome brown paper bags to wrap my gifts at the craft fair. However, the smaller gifts were too small for these. So I ...
Make a Cat Bed from a Computer Monitor
OK, you've seen them everywhere, those old TV's and Monitors everyone's kicking to the curb replacing with those new fan dangle flat screens. And few of us could fault them... the flat screens take up so little room, and have all kinds of resolution... ohhh ahhh. But what to do with the old mon...
Why is there something instead of nothing? In other words: Why does the universe exist (and why are we in it)? Philosopher and writer Jim Holt follows this question toward three possible answers. Or four. Or none.
You can have an indoor fireplace safely in any home- no chimney necessary! When you rent like me, you're at the mercy of your landlord when it comes to home improvement. Nothing makes me feel cozy on a cold day like an open flame warming the living room, but there's no way my landlord is going to sp...
Mini Mile High Owl Apple Pies
It's no tall order to make and bake these mile high mini apple pies. You can have these edible creatures with 6 ingredients in 5 easy steps.Each pie requires:4 mini frozen tart shells1 small apple1 tablespoon butter1 teaspoon sugar1/4 teaspoon cinnamon1 egg yolk for wash Cut 1. Cut apples into t...
how to cook bacon in the oven
Cooking your bacon in the oven is the most efficient way to cook it as far as I'm concerned. Using your oven makes cooking bacon for a crowd nice and easy and frees up your stovetop for all the other breakfast foods you're undoubtably wanting to stuff your face with. :DAnd the best part? The bacon c...
Full explanation of the NESKeytar construction and it's various features coming soon. Yes, I know I misspelled "functional". A complete lack of proof reading, woops :(
Most of the buttons are functional and can be remapped to different functions, as can the whammy bar. It also has an onboard arpeggio and drum sequencer.
The sound comes from the original RP2A03 chip in the NES, giving it that classic 8-bit sound. All of the available sound channels are utilised.
The software runs on a raspberry pi and is written in a language called Pure Data (pd). There are various modes including a midi controller mode as well as a standalone mode, which allows the whole instrument to be used with a battery pack.
Components: NES Guitar Hero Controller Famicom Controller NES controller Toy Keyboard 3 Mini Arduinos Raspberry Pi MaxM LEDs Midi IN/OUT connections MidiNES / Chip Maestro
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It's becoming more and more popular in America to smoke hookah. It's commonly thought that it's much safer than smoking cigarettes, but is there any truth to this? Trace shatters your misconceptions about the safety of smoking out of a water pipe on this episode of DNews.
Read More: Hookah, is it really harmless? http://www.resmedjournal.com/article/... "The hookah is a snuff smoking device whose origin dates back to the fifteenth century, has been used extensively in the Middle East in recent decades has become popular in Western culture countries, particularly in Americas and Europe."
Hookah Hazards: Not Only Cancer But Herpes, Experts Say http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.5... "People may not realize just how dangerous water-pipes are; one session can be equal to 100 cigarettes."
Hookahs http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_stati... "Hookahs are water pipes that are used to smoke specially made tobacco that comes in different flavors, such as apple, mint, cherry, chocolate, coconut, licorice, cappuccino, and watermelon."
An Emerging Deadly Trend: Waterpipe Tobacco Use http://www.lungusa2.org/embargo/slati... "In the last few years, new popularity for an old form of tobacco use has been gaining ground within this already susceptible group."
Hookah Smoking: Is It Safer Than Cigarettes http://www.mayoclinic.org/hookah/expe... "Hookah smoking is not safer than cigarette smoking. Also known as narghile, shisha and goza, a hookah is a water pipe with a smoke chamber, a bowl, a pipe and a hose." Hookah Smoking No Less Harmful Than Cigarettes, Study Finds http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04... "The toxins in hookah smoke may be different from that of cigarette smoke, but that doesn't make it any less harmful, according to a new study."
4 Myths About Hookah Health Spur Wide Use http://www.livescience.com/8227-4-myt... "In a country that has banned smoking in all public places, nicotine researchers were surprised to see hookahs — imagine stationary glass bagpipes, partly filled with water, used for smoking — pop up even in the most mainstream Canadian cafes."
The Dangers of Hookah Smoking http://www.cdc.gov/features/hookahsmo... "Similar to cigarettes, hookah smoking delivers the addictive drug nicotine and it is at least as toxic as cigarette smoking."
Yoichi Ochiai / 落合陽一(The University of Tokyo / 東京大学) Takayuki Hoshi / 星貴之(Nagoya Institute of Technology / 名古屋工業大学) Jun Rekimoto / 暦本純一 (The University of Tokyo / Sony CSL)
The essence of levitation technology is the countervailing of gravity. It is known that an ultrasound standing wave is capable of suspending small particles at its sound pressure nodes and, so far, this method has been used to levitate lightweight particles, small creatures, and water droplets. The acoustic axis of the ultrasound beam in these previous studies was parallel to the gravitational force, and the levitated objects were manipulated along the fixed axis (i.e. one-dimensionally) by controlling the phases or frequencies of bolted Langevin-type transducers. In the present study, we considered extended acoustic manipulation whereby millimetre-sized particles were levitated and moved three-dimensionally by localised ultrasonic standing waves, which were generated by ultrasonic phased arrays. Our manipulation system has two original features. One is the direction of the ultrasound beam, which is arbitrary because the force acting toward its centre is also utilised. The other is the manipulation principle by which a localised standing wave is generated at an arbitrary position and moved three-dimensionally by opposed and ultrasonic phased arrays. We experimentally confirmed that various materials could be manipulated by our proposed method.
Yoichi Ochiai, Takayuki Hoshi, Jun Rekimoto: Three-dimensional Mid-air Acoustic Manipulation by Ultrasonic Phased Arrays arXiv:1312.4006 [physics.class-ph] http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4006
@ARTICLE{2013arXiv1312.4006O, author = {{Ochiai}, Y. and {Hoshi}, T. and {Rekimoto}, J.}, title = "{Three-dimensional Mid-air Acoustic Manipulation by Ultrasonic Phased Arrays}", journal = {ArXiv e-prints}, archivePrefix = "arXiv", eprint = {1312.4006}, primaryClass = "physics.class-ph", keywords = {Physics - Classical Physics, H.5.2}, year = 2013, month = dec, adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013arX...}, adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System} }
