Star Wars LEGO Clock
That’s no moon. It’s a clock built by Instructables member YOUgNeek. He used a stencil to mark out the Death Star pattern. Then he pressed white LEGO pieces into the clay to provide backing for the interchangeable minfigs. So although it’s currently a quarter till Boba Fett, he can swap the minifigs to reflect different [...]
Your Age on Other Planets
If I lived on Neptune I would be less than a Neptune year old, how old would you be? This nifty calculator allows you to figure out your “age” on different planets (including dwarf planet Pluto). Every grade school student knows we measure years by how long it takes the Earth to travel around the [...]
Why Does My Gadget Say It’s December 31, 1969?
If you’ve ever had the date on a cell phone, iPod, or computer software mysteriously switch to December 31, 1969, you may have thought it was simply random. However, the answer to this question is a bit of computer trivia.
Unix, the computer operating system used on most servers, workstations and mobile devices, was launched on [...]
