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They’re every where, they’re cheap – they can be dangerously “fun”. Things to do with disposable cameras!

Booby-trapped Magic 8 Ball, turn it over and FLASH!

Here’s a simple, but powerful, coil gun made from the flash circuit of a disposable camera, a large cap, a coil of magnet wire and an ink pen shaft (and a few other parts).

Homemade Strobe Photography. Take high speed photos! Before you take apart a single-use camera, you need to know that there is a large electrolytic capacitor inside the camera. See the instructions in MAKE 04, pages 109 and 110, for how to disassemble the camera. Above, the set up and a balloon being popped!

Stunning camera! Chris at Pyroelectro made this highly detailed tutorial on how to modify a single use camera to shock its user when they try to take a picture. Dirty trick, so please be careful.

This weekend is the Superbowl, Sunday, February 6, 2011 - 6:30pm ET. It's the Pittsburgh Steelers  vs. Green Bay Packers. Like many busy people with a of couple jobs, I didn't know anything about these teams and didn't realize it was football season, but I admire the skill, dedication, and technology that goes into the game and the broadcasts. That said, last week's State of the Union had an interesting quote from the president.

We need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.

OK, what can we do? Spend 20 minutes during the half-time show and showcase some national science fair winners? I don't think force feeding some science during a sports game will help celebrate anything. We'll just flip the channels waiting for some "crazy ad" we'll all be talking about on Monday. Most people I know who are really into science, engineering, art, and design aren't really into watching dudes smash each other between beer commercials. Alternatively, I don't expect football fans to think about science fairs on game day either. Why should they? It's football time. There's likely a way to bring the "science of the game" to a broader audience. The materials used for equipment are "space age" — the technology for the broadcast is intense. Overlays, tons of CGI, and live effects for portions — it's all very cool and all made by very science-oriented people. But really, who cares? I can't imagine a nation celebrating Nobel Prize winners the same way we celebrate a football team, the USA does pretty well with winning many types of science awards, but the closest thing I can think of was the footage and stories I saw of the moon-landing astronauts after they got back. For all the makers who are doing something besides watching the Super Bowl this weekend, post up in the comments: what are you doing? What are you celebrating? For the football fans, would you like to see some of the science tech of football? Is it a realistic goal to hope we celebrate science fair winners like Super Bowl teams?

Enchanting on every level - bike mods, great cinematography, and a rainbow at the end. Robo-rainbow by mudlevel [via Adafruit]

The Hack Factory in Minneapolis is throwing a Roundabout Dog challenge. Place a dog sculpture in a roundabout and win eternal fame!

Prize: A picture of your roundabout dog framed and displayed in the basement of Minneapolis' hackerspace the Hack Factory, bragging rights.

How to Enter: Anyone can enter, kudos if you're from another hackerspace. Send a picture of your roundabout dog, the gps coordinates (Lat,Long), your name, and anything else you would like to say to bigroundaboutdog@gmail.com.

How to Win: A winner will be chosen on February 23rd based on Random.org's decidedly geeky atmospheric noise random number generator. The more dogs you enter, the better chance you have to win.

For those of you in the Minneapolis area, a few brave souls, myself included, will be at the HF's weekly Wednesday hack meeting on February 2nd, and we will be putting together some roundabout dogs. The meetings are informal and open to the public and usually start around 7pm or so.

The Hack Factory likes roundabout dogs.

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Inspired by pirate radio and the free culture movement, PirateBox utilizes Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) to create mobile wireless file sharing networks where users can anonymously share images, video, audio, documents, and other digital content.

PirateBox is designed to be private and secure. No logins are required and no user data is logged. Users remain completely anonymous - the system is purposely not connected to the Internet in order to subvert tracking and preserve user privacy.

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