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I've recently read an interesting article on the NY Times about an MIT competition on synthetic biology. A determined team about from a community college managed to get there. Good read. But what I would like to know is where can I find more information about this? * What are some good...

Like anything that moves, a zombie will need energy to be able to continue to move around for months (years?). Where will it get this energy? I have yet to see a zombie that grows its own carrots :) The idea of zombies in sci-fi are not plausible. However, using something to alter your...

I had the same problem that you do now. For that I did some googling around and found a set of tools called Autotools. Here is a pretty good explanation of what you might want to do: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/autotools_a_guide_to_autoconf_automake_libtool This requires...

If you could, please provide the following: * What sources are you using for your setup? A link to a tutorial? * What version of the software packages? * What errors are you getting when doing the install?

Thanks.

Anyone know of one online? A PDF would be awesome. Also, if it delves into magnets, magnetism and magnetic forces in-depth (nothing too crazy, no new whacky theories), that would hit gold, gold I tell ya!

Hey all, was wondering if someone knows of a book (if it's on safari books online, even better!), website or other source that teaches me -- a software guy -- the basics of electronics. Basically I want to know about voltages, generators, capacitors and everything in-between. Wanna have my...

Yeah, but these are a good start :) . http://groups.google.com/group/diybio/browse_thread/thread/e3ea9182fe618a71?pli=1 http://web.archive.org/web/20080106164837/http://www.biophysik.physik.uni-muenchen.de/PlasticAFM/ http://www.e-basteln.de/index_o.htm http://sxm4.uni-muenster.de/stm-de/...

*sigh* Ok, so, I take it that this is simply beyond the abilities available for most people without millions of dollars and a lab? If that is the case, just say so.

Anyone? Anything? Even if I'm making little smiley faces on graphite? I'd love to make something that's more complex using steel, even if I have to stitch it together atom by atom.

To be fair, you're lucky. I'm not whining, but rarely do you get to do what you studied. The key to overcoming this is to find something that you can do in your spare time that you enjoy (or be very aggressive and find the job that you *truly* enjoy ;-) ). I like computer science and love...

lol, don't feed the negative vibe. Look, if you really enjoy what you want to do, you will find a way to do it. Currently I'm doing web-design and making web-apps. It's entertaining for my intellect to a point... now, artificial intelligence, give me a week and close me off from society for a...

Sounds like my experience with comp-sci undergrad and grad school. I just did things different, I looked at the field (which I knew I already enjoyed) and picked what I liked (nay, I absolutely LOVE this topic) the most: Artificial Intelligence I then proceeded to keep what I learned in the...

Currently digging in FreeCAD and I like what I see. Still very much in the development phase with lots of functionality that needs to be implemented. I've heard of DraftSight, not sure how well that works. The reason for this is that commercial CAD software is *wicked* expensive. Hundreds...

Hi all, I'm just curious, is there a way to do nano-tech in your basement-type-of-setup? I don't expect to have a plate that I feed raw-materials into, input a design that I want and have it make an atomically correct structure. But it would be nice to arrange a bunch of atoms in a...