Coolest setup ever

What could possibly cooler than this?!
I have GOT to  try this!

In other news: I continue to be a big fan of Caleb's Work. Love it!

Random Instructables 9/30/15

Instructable of the Day:

2W Arduino Laser Engraver/Cutter

This is a super simple and cheap laser cutter/engraver.. it really could not be any simpler..
Raster images with 256 levels of grey .. nope
Autofocus or z axis.. nope
Higher power for metal.. nope

But you load materials and it will give you an image, I think it's pretty impressive for the time invested. Also it seems like a good starting point to add those other features as you go..

It's no GlowForge but it works good for what it is..

Homemade Laser

Homemade Ultraviolet Lasers
Found on Make: and Hackaday 

Who knew lasers were so easy to build?..

I remember reading How the Laser Happened recently.
In it Charles Townes said it was amazing no one figured out just the right mix of known physics and conditions to make a laser 30yrs before him. (if I still had the book that would be a direct quote).

Is there anything cooler?

This video (youtube) is one of the coolest ideas I've seen anywhere (aside from the whole wasting one of my favorite foods aspect).

Who knew throwing 10,000 volts through a watermelon makes a simple gourd into a bomb!!

via: Makezine blog

Btw: Your probably wondering why I didn't embed the video. It's because I don't believe in embedding dozens of videos. I have to operate from a slower/older laptop and embedding dozens of videos on a blog or a website slows my computer to a crawl. Its very frustrating. If I can figure out how to make blogger build in a break maybe I will embed videos in the future. But for now my website is usable for those on older/slower hardware and slower connections...