Brimfield Antique Show: Vintage Tech
We were out at Brimfield in July for their giant antique show. We planned to do the same this past Thursday for the start of the Fall show, but the torrential rain changed [...]
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Nixie Tubes
The photo of the Digital Readout unit from our Craigslist purchase got the emails flowing. Many of you were eager to share your stories of nixie tube projects. [...]
Scherr Tumico Toolmaker’s Microscope
The RainyDayInterns are tasked with scouring Craigslist and flagging anything which may be interesting to use for DIY projects. We never know what they will find, but [...]
Two Hundred Light Years
Perspective: One can get it when one looks at things from a new or different vantage point. Having the proper perspective is important in contemplating everyday things. It [...]
Manga Guide: The Universe
We have read a few of the books (Electricity, Molecular Biology, Databases) in the Manga Guide collection and have found them to be both entertaining and educational. In [...]
Last Space Shuttle Flight
NASA’s Space Shuttle program began almost forty years ago. Today, it blasted offfor the last time. When the program was officially launched by President Nixon on [...]
Thunderclouds
The 90º heat in Boston finally broke yesterday and it did it in dramatic fashion. Around 4PM in the afteroon, clouds started to form overhead. In the span of less than [...]
Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
We here at RainyDayMagazine are fascinated by dinosaurs. While decendents of dinosaurs are all around us (birds, reptiles, etc…) none of them are of the size of the [...]
PED3 Mount
When we mentioned that we were looking for an appropriate tripod mount for the iPhone, a few readers pointed us to a couple of possibilities. Of all the suggestions, the [...]
iPhone Microscope Outside
Last week we posted a write-up of the Brando iPhone4 microscope lens. It generated a bit of email asking if the setup is at all practical out “in the field.” [...]
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