A friend gave me a stack of VHS tapes as a challenge to recycle. VHS tapes have many different materials, molded plastic pieces, springs, screws and spools of magnetic tape. The cases too ma… Read More

At the Ashburton MenzShed this week, I made a spice rack, up-cycled from free pallet wood. The pallet had a few pieces of perhaps an Australian hardwood with some beautiful colors in it.&nbs&hell…Read More

I have been experimenting with different materials for an art project and decided that I needed some knitting tools to help make some of the art. Crochet tools Using a drill as a lathe and… Read More

Today I stoped procrastinating and got down to Blueprint (the maker space) at the Library. It was the last day they were open for 2020, before the Christmas break.  As far as I know the… Read More

Matt Parker highlights some bugs in the Apple iPhone Calendar I checked my phone's calendar and it has the bug between the years 200 and 1910Wrong number of days in most months and wher… Read More

I had a pocket tripod and a selfie-stick and so I created an adaptor to join the selfie-stick's phone mount to the tripod. Using recycled ice cream sticks that I cut, glued, drilled, shape… Read More

On a recent trip to Anakara, we visited the Natural History Museum (MTA Genel Müdürlüğü Tabiat Tarihi Müzesi). We were greeted by dinosaurs at the entrance Gua… Read More

On a recent trip to Ankara, Turkey, we visited the Middle East Technical University (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi) Science and Technology Museum. This museum is located on the un… Read More

In the Izmir harbor, we discovered this floating museum, Zübeyde Hanım, with a focus on rescue ships and some of the earlier technology used on them. Model of a res… Read More

Dating back to 1410, the Astronomical Clock in Prague is one of the oldest astronomical clocks in the world and the oldest one still operating. Every hour, there is a clockwork display calle… Read More

Over the years we have featured many videos on the MuzGadgets blog. Here are all the YouTube videos in a playlist for your convenience: View this post and more in full at http://muzg… Read More

There is not usually much to see at an observatory during the day, but the Prague Observatory has these sundials outside. Can you tell what time it was?An analemma. This plots the position… Read More

On our recent trip to Prague, we visited the KGB Muzeum. The Russian owner gave a very dramatic tour presentation of their collection of weapons, cameras, and other spy items… Read More

The Golden Ratio [phi (ɸ) ~1.61803399] is often found in the relationship between lines and shapes in nature. Some examples include the nautilus shell, sunflowers, and proportions of th… Read More

During the 1500s, the idea of turning lead into gold with alchemy was sought after by many including Emporer Rupert II of Bohemia. He employed Edward Kelley as an alchemist. We visited the h… Read More

A fun museum for kids and adults to visit is the Lego Museum in Prague. On our recent trip to Prague, we enjoyed looking at the models and playing with the Lego. A large Sydney Opera HouseA… Read More

On our holiday at the famous Pamukkale geothermal area last winter, I stopped to watch a hot air balloon launch.     View this post and more in full at http://muzgadgets.blogspot… Read More

Prague has hundreds of specialist museums. We rounded a corner and saw the Apple Museum so we just had to visit. They have a huge collection of Apple computers, iPods, iPhones and iPads from… Read More

On a recent trip to Prague, we visited the Nostalgic Museum. The owner had a large collection of devices for playing recorded music before vinyl records were popular. These included mus… Read More

I have a couple of spare domain names for sale: 2020.designThis would suit anyone planning a major design event for the year 2020. webdesignnz.co.nzThis domain name would benefit any N… Read More

To support our Netflix in bed habit and avoid the problem of the laptop warming the knees or bed we were on the lookout for an overbed table. The dumpster near our apartment often has treas… Read More

MuzGadget cousin, Patrick, is featured in this Rural Delivery clip and talks about how he is using technology to automate, sustain and improve his pine seedling nursery. Read the whole Ru… Read More

On our recent trip to Budapest, we spent an evening at Flippermuzeum - Europe's largest interactive pinball museum. They have over 150 machines ranging from ancient electromechanical ma… Read More

Last Monday, we spent the day at the Center of Scientific Wonders in Budapest. We enjoyed a wide range of interactive science exhibits, the games and puzzles bar and an escape room. The spac… Read More

The band OK GO have a sandbox of online resources around their music videos for STEAM (Science Technology Electronics Art Math) education. The science and math behind some of their rec… Read More

Recently, my children's school held a science fair for students in Years 7-11. My daughter did a project on the layers of the earth. My son and other students from Years 10-11 created Rube G… Read More

Here are some projects I have recently completed where I have used recycled/upcycled/reclaimed materials. Improved Laptop StandWhen I bought the stand I had a Dell Inspiron laptop which is… Read More

On our recent trip to Ireland we did a tour of the famous Guinness Storehouse. It was fascinating to learn the process of making the world famous beer and to craft and taste it. The tour… Read More

For an art project I have been playing around with some ways of representing numbers. Can you solve these simple equations and find the pattern? View this post and more in… Read More

One of the MuzGadget Bros is having a birthday today. I asked Siri what to get him: Happy birthday bro. Eat your vegetables. View this post and more in full at http://muzgadgets.blogspot.c… Read More

Last weekend we had a quick holiday in Venice and went on a glass-blowing tour. We saw the above demonstration and then learnt how the different colors are produced with chemicals a… Read More

I have recently seen media like this from Tom Scott about how the world is running out of sand. So it is refreshing to know that New Zealand's DB Export is recycling beer bottles into sand… Read More

Over the weekend we saw several Thunderbirds Are Go episodes on a TV cartoon channel. I remember the original Thunderbirds were puppets and I thought the remake was all CGI. I am happily sur… Read More

Yet another awesome music video from OK Go.  There was a lot of math involved in getting all of the pyrotechnics to sync exactly with the music. Another video showing more of the be… Read More

Standup mathematician, Matt Parker, explains why NTSC has 29.97 frames per second. See also the behind the scenes on how Matt made this episode. View this post and more in full at http:/… Read More

I got a little sunburnt last week after a short time in the sun. Here are 7 solar powered creations. View this post and more in full at http://muzgadgets.blogspot.com Read More

We recently attended the annual Izmir International Fair. The theme this year was innovation and the exhibits included a mini maker faire. Suburban train simulator Virtual reality parachute… Read More

In New Zealand we picked up an IDo3D art kit which has two resin pens and a UV torch for creating 3D art. My daughter and I created a seahorse model following an example on the box. Blue and… Read More

On our travels in New Zealand we visited the Hastings City Art Gallery and we interacted with an exhibit: The cubic structural evolution project, 2004, is a hands-on installation by Danish-I… Read More

I recently got an iPhone SE and I have been having some conversations with Siri. View this post and more in full… Read More

Stephen Coyle has built a Simpsons episode shuffler which plays a random "good" Simpsons episode from a Raspberry Pi Zero at the push of a large yellow button. See Stephen's blog for deta… Read More

Turkish sons are often spoilt and pampered by their mothers. This electronics store's advert from a few years ago highlights some of the technological features of mothers.Happy Mothers' Day… Read More

Outdoor adventure sport enthusiast, Mikael Kjellman, has a invented an all-weather velomobile called the PodRide. Mikael is raising funds on IndieGoGo to take th… Read More

Sometime in the 1980s I stayed up really late to watch one of the space shuttle launches live (possibly STS-61C. Due to weather or some other problem it was delayed and I missed seeing the l… Read More

Destin from SmarterEveryDay explores some mind blowing magnets. View this post and more in full at http://muzgadgets.blogspot.com Read More

Simone Giertz, maker/robotics enthusiast/non-engineer, creates some amusing robots. Build logs and more of her robots on her blog and YouTube channel. View this post and more in full at h… Read More

Analogue sundials show the time with a shadow pointing to numbers marked on the sundial. This digital sundial uses 3D printing so the shadow cast projects the time. The video explains the… Read More

Analogue sundials show the time with a shadow pointing to numbers marked on the sundial. This digital sundial uses 3D printing so the shadow cast projects the time. The video explains the… Read More

Three videos poking fun at artisans and makers. View this post and more in full at http://muzgadgets.blogspot.com Read More

OK Go - Upside Down & Inside Out Hello, Dear Ones. Please enjoy our new video for "Upside Down & Inside Out". A million thanks to S7 Airlines. #GravitysJustAHabit Posted by OK Go on… Read More

OK Go - Upside Down & Inside Out Hello, Dear Ones. Please enjoy our new video for "Upside Down & Inside Out". A million thanks to S7 Airlines. #GravitysJustAHabit Posted by OK Go on… Read More

In celebration of Groundhog Day, Instructables again has a special instructable today on how to modify the Groundhog Day Alarm Clock featured in the Groundhog Day movie. The Ground… Read More

What gadgets did Santa bring you for Christmas? My kids got Lego and Meccano models. I got a 28pcs precision mini tool set. I've used it to build a papercraft Minecraft Steve.   I al… Read More

A backyard New Zealand inventor has created a hands free wheelchair for a friend disabled in a skiing accident. The wheelchair is self balancing and responds to shifts in weight, allowing th… Read More

This amazing award winning house in Australia can chase the sun. Built on a huge lazy susan, the house rotates 359 degrees for a change of scenery at the touch of a button. View this post… Read More

Earlier in the year I glued together a papercraft lunar globe from Canon Creative Park. Recently I've been thinking about making my own earth globe, but after watching this video it doesn… Read More

We visited the  Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart during our summer holiday. The museum has two exhibition buildings in Rosenstein park. We only visited the Mu… Read More

In Hamburg this summer we visited the famous Miniatur Wunderland. It is the world's largest model railway with hundreds of thousands of figures, thousands of moving trains, planes, boats and… Read More

Did you know that Denmark has an amateur manned space programme? On our summer trip to Denmark, we visited the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen and saw a slightly damaged spacecraft c… Read More

This summer we visited the Viking Ships Museum at Roskilde in Denmark. The museum is dedicated to preserving five viking ships that were discovered submerged in the Roskilde Fjord. The five… Read More

On our recent trip to Denmark, we visited the Geological Museum in Copenhagen. Along with displays on geology, highlights for us included a collection of meterorites and a collection… Read More

In the very center of Copenhagen is the Round Tower - one of the world’s oldest working observatories.  During our recent trip to Denmark, we climbed the spiral ramp and stairs 38… Read More

As a family we like to visit hands-on science museums in different countries when we travel on vacation.  This summer we visited the Experimentarium City in Copenhagen, Denmark and spen… Read More

The local Air Force Technical School had an open day on the weekend with flight and aircraft displays. A lot of student projects were on display too. Some had made fire fighting robotic mod… Read More

My daughter went to Space Camp Turkey a few weeks ago for a three day school trip. "It was pretty fun - very fun indeed". She learnt a lot of stuff about space including the Mercury astron… Read More

Easter eggs are hidden gems inside movies, dvds, software and websites. Have you ever made any? I created a couple of Easter eggs three years ago on the Factory Reset wiki. This wiki has u… Read More

EnChroma in association with Valspar has developed glasses which transform colors for people with color vision deficiency. Learn more about the technology used at http://enchroma.com… Read More

My ancient Dell Inspiron developed problems with the screen about 18 months ago.  The LCD panel was OK, but the backlight was not working. In the meantime, I have used an external monit… Read More

To celebrate pi day, I've created a couple of art works: Peaces of pie  and 3 dominates π Later today I will also make a lemon meringue pie. View this post and more in full at http:… Read More

I've given the MuzGadgets blog a bit of a makeover with a vector based banner designed in Affinity Designer from Serif and freshening up the look of the blog with new fonts and some col… Read More

My work phone is a Galaxy Note 3 that came with a 1st gen galaxy gear watch. Because i am a gadget guy i like to get the most out of all my gadgets, the note 3 has nfc technology built in so… Read More

I was wondering why this cheap "DUAL POWER" calculator was not working. Sure the battery was probably flat and it was dim in the room, but it would not turn on even in bright light. So I… Read More

I like this old style hourglass clock by Mike Sander which flips and advances the hour every 60 minutes. It is expertly handcrafted and the internal workings are a unique solution. View th… Read More

Tom Scott gives an informative presentation on how film and video did "green screen" editing before computers. For info on how "green screen" works now, ask the Muzgadget Bro at Outpost… Read More

Gravity, the designers of a pen and a pad specifically designed for sketching in the augmented environment have also developed Lego X - location aware lego bricks for creating digital 3D mod… Read More

In celebration of Groundhog Day, Instructables has a special instructable today on how to modify the Groundhog Day Alarm Clock featured in the Groundhog Day movie. The Groundhog Da… Read More

Imagine having your senses rewired. Neil Harbisson was born color blind and can only see in grayscale. His "eyeborg" allows him to hear colors including infrared and ultraviolet. See and he… Read More

Here is a cool idea for emergency shelters. Inspired by an upside-down styrofoam coffee cup, the Exo Housing system is designed for rapid deployment at lower cost and higher efficiency than… Read More

It looks like the future that Marty McFly experienced in Back to the Future 2 is becoming reality. Learn more at http://huvrtech.com/ View this post and more in full at http://muzgad… Read More

Here is a great time saving invention for delivering clean water. View this post and more in full at http://muzgadgets.blogspot.com Read More

When I worked as the computer systems administrator at Medical Diagnostics, a community medical testing lab (from 1988-94), occasionally I would give a tube of blood for control tests. The e… Read More