20 millicenturies of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

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Happy birthday to us! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is now two years of age. Collected below is a “Best of Evil Mad Scientist” for the past year: Some of our favorite projects that we’ve published over the last twelve months. Here’s to the next year!

Quick projects:

Set of bands
Rubberbands made from old bicycle innertubes.

vertical light tent setup
Light tent made from a lampshade.

Still life with yellow paper (group shot 2)
Chip bugs

Enterprise
Bristlebots

Sizing
Spool spinner from an old fan.

Quick C to D adapter
The $1.00 C to D adapter

Electronics projects

Weekend Projects Podcast!
How to make a Joule Thief from Make: Weekend Projects.

lights off?
How to make a dark-detecting LED night light.

The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk
The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junk

Finished 1
How to make a Sawed-off USB Key

AVR microcontroller projects

ADXL3XX
Using an ADXL330 accelerometer with an AVR microcontroller

Snapper - 09
Snap-o-lantern

Kit Projects

XX8_complete
AVR Target Boards

Four Panels 2
Interactive Table Kits

Resist1- Wall hanging
Peggy

grayscale
Peggy v 2.0

Crafty Projects

Q*bert close-up
QuiltBert

vintage software book handbag
Software Handbag

iPod inside
iPod cozy

Earrings 2
Fimo Fractals

Miniature Art Car
Mini Art Cars

New wing
Umbrella Bat Costume v 2.0

Food Hacking

cooking
Cooking hotdogs

555 LED flasher 1
Circuitry Snacks

Googly FSM
Edible Googly Eyes

Sierpinski Cookies-11
Fractal Cookies

CandyFab

Sugar Chain
Printing complex shapes: Sugar Chain

Before and after 2
Candyfab improvements: higher resolution and edible output

Papercraft:

Usage 3: First operand
Rotary Fraction Adding Machine

toner - 15
Electric Origami

Observations & silly projects:

Cat volume computation
Volume of a cat

Gourds
Pacman Halloween

Lego Projects:

Lego Shooter
Forbidden Lego review & build

Technic Bits
Efficient Lego Storage

Reviews:

suction tool
Obscure electronics tools

Lee Valley & Veritas catalog
Lee Valley & Veritas Catalog Review

Teardowns:

Twisted leads (close-up)
LED Stoplight

All the parts
pedometer
hp2600n - 178
HP Color LaserJet 2600n

9 thoughts on “20 millicenturies of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

  1. You guys are awesome… an inspiration to hack gleefully. Many thanks for two excellent years!

  2. Congrats!!! I’ve discovered this place not long ago, and I love it! Greetings from Spain!

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  3. I just got my hands on a copy of the 2008 edition of the Allied Electronics catalog. It’s got over 2200 beautifully colorful pages of components, cables, connectors, enclosures, tools and other goodies.

  4. You do know that a millicentury would be one one thousandth of a century? Meaning that 20 millicenturies would be 0.2 years, or approximately 73 days.

    The word you’re looking for is “millimillenium” or “centicentury”. Either will work.

    1. I don’t think that I understand your math.

      1 century = 100 years
      1 millicentury = 100 years/1000 = 0.1 years
      20 millicenturies = 20*0.1 year = 2 years.

      A millimillenium or centicentury are both equal to one year– and this blog post was for our 2nd anniversary, not our 20th.


      Windell H. Oskay
      drwho(at)evilmadscientist.com
      http://www.evilmadscientist.com/

      1. My math? It’s quite simple.

        My staying up way too late = My making foolish error while posting afterwards

        You are quite right. 20 millicenturies would be 2 years. Sorry about that.

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