The Museum of Telecommunication, aka, The Telephone Museum, is a must see for any tinkerer. Run by folks who spent a good chunk of time working for the phone company, this place is a treasure trove of gadgets and telecommunication devices. Rich Barger took my friends and I on a tour around 2 floors of amazing clicking machines and explained the magic of telephones, switchboards, relays, and showed us how it all works. If there is a machine that has been used in communicating over wires, they’ve got it there and it works.
Norm and Barb volunteer there maintaining the nation’s fleet of tape machines for the blind.
Here’a a human-sized phone… it works!
There are a lot of antique ham radios there too.
Beth tried on this old school phone operator gear… that thing around her neck is called a “spit cup.”
Open only on Tuesdays from 8:30-2, the Telephone Museum is at 7000 Marginal Way in Seattle- Map Link
Click here to see the all of the photos I took at the museum! - Link
Beth made up a haiku for the Museum of Telecommunication!
Telephone
dial, switch and relay
click, clack, ring.
I found this cat pond not very far from where i live. I wanna go!
“cat pond” lat=47.4480160041, lon=-122.244824889
My friends and I are sending a balloon into space with a 12-15 megapixels eyeball.
Follow along at dxpedition.net.
And now what you’ve all been waiting for….
This week’s challenge has a HANDS theme. You are to take the following photos:
1. “Winner” and “Loser” self portraits. Make a “W” with your hands on against your forehead for “Winner”. Make an “L” with your hand against your forehead for “Loser”. Bonus points if your “L” is backwards. That takes a real loser!!
(Yes, these are two separate photos that count as one completion!)
(You might be saying to yourself “doesn’t that “W” sign mean “Whatever”? Nope. We make the rules here.)
2. Someone (you or anyone) giving us “the claw.” Yeah, two little girls have done this move for photos for me and Bre recently. Copy them!
Go to the Photogamer site to see the rest! - Link
Go to photogamer.com for the whole scoop and to follow along.
For today only, that’s Sunday, grab your camera, your kids, your friends, whatever and whoever you need and get shooting!
Today’s challenge is to take photos of the following items:
1. small dog
2. reflection
3. phone (not a cell phone!)
4. stranger wearing a hat
5. something you made
Rules:
- These photos must be taken on 2/18/07
- Post to the Flickr photogamer group and tag photos with item name and “photogamer” (for example, the photo of the dog will be tagged “small dog” and “photogamer”)
Yep, this is in alpha-mode. Not a-la-mode… that’s ice cream, silly.
Bre and Hilary like to play games with their cameras and they want you to too… that sounds funny talking in the third person about ourselves.
We’ve got lots of ideas to make this the coolest thing you’ll ever do with your camera.
Feel free to send us emails to dungeonmaster@photogamers.com
Wanna know what just made my 80 hour week worthy? - Link
For this weeks podcast, I’m bringing you a monthly roundup podcast! Every month I’m going to do a round up of videos that people send to me and videos that I take that just really need to be shared. This is the first one like this!
In this video, the following makers are featured:
Julie Leung’s family egg drop experiment.
Chris Love’s Trebuchet that has been waiting in the wings for over a week, just aching to get published.
Jeremy Franklin Ross of the hazard factory shows off his dangerous Tri-Rod-Del-Fuego!
Nate True’s snot-like Goo Fountain.
Do you have a video of you making something or showing off something youve made? Upload it to blip.tv as a mp4, avi, mov, or m4v and send a link to me at brepettis@gmail.com or drop a note in the comments! I’ll choose a few for next month to include in the monthly video round up for March!
Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything. Here’s a 3gp and 3g2 for people who like to watch on their phone! Of course if you subscribe in itunes, the videos and accompanying pdf get downloaded automatically for you, no muss no fuss. You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv or on the podcast page at your leisure! - Subscribe Link
Bonnie has officially made me a member of the legion of cute geek boys. We shall rule the world through our geekery. - Link (insert darth vader music here)
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