We’re just wrapping up a series of site upgrades, including migration to a new host (Linode) that should greatly improve our speed and availability.

Thanks for your patience as we smash a few last bugs– it’s been a busy weekend.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories now has a twitter feed. Enjoy!

As of today, one thousand people have saved our little web site to their del.icio.us bookmarks.

Everybody else is doing it, Shouldn’t you? =D

Neat-o: our site was picked as one of PC Magazine’s 100 Favorite Blogs!

One year ago today, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories went live. Happy birthday to us!

We originally started this blog as a means to help us document and organize our various projects. Since then we’ve seen writeups about our projects on more than two thousand other blogs, and even in a handful of print magazines. We’ve contributed projects to an art show, sparked some interesting collaborations, and built some of the wackiest machines that we ever have. In the course of these projects we somehow found excuses to buy three old HP pen plotters, 2.4×10^4 LEDs, a Macintosh SE, Marshmallow Peeps, and three hundred pounds of sugar.

What will the next year bring? Who knows! But, we’re looking forward to it.
Thanks for reading Evil Mad Scientist!

– Lenore & Windell

(Pictured above: An alphanumeric persistence of vision display. Source code, how-to and more photos coming next Wednesday.)

Our new forums have been quietly live and gathering dust (and a few posts) for a little while now, so we thought it was about time to announce their presence.

We hope that the forums will be a good place to share information. Got stuck building one of our electronics projects? Want to know where to find parts in your town? Want to tell us what projects you want to see us cover?

Some of the places you can ask and answer those questions are:

• Ask an Evil Mad Scientist
• Project support
• Suggestion box

Whether you are seeking help on a project, want to beseech us to stop posting articles about peeps (sorry– there’s one more coming this year), or just want to help out your fellow evil mad scientists, please join in!

We’ve just set up syndication through FeedBlitz so that (if you like) you can get new evilmadscientist.com articles by E-mail when they are posted, typically 3-5 times per week.

(Geek translation: It’s a feed reader for people that don’t read feeds.)

To sign up, enter your E-mail address in the box and click the button:

It’s free of course, but you’ll have to wait for confirmation E-mail to arrive from FeedBlitz, which may take a few hours.

We’ve had some inquiries about project E-mail and/or newsletters, and so we think that this might be another useful tool to keep up with what’s going on here in Evil Mad Science land.

The Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories blog went live on June 21, a little more than six months ago. This week, we broke into the Technorati top 1000. w00t!

We noticed a couple of months ago when Honorary Evil Mad Scientists Laughing Squid first crossed that little line, and we are flattered to be amongst such great company.

As of yesterday, our technorati rank was 992, with over 2100 links from over 1200 blogs. Thanks everyone!

Some of our stories got a lot of attention, particularly the following ones:

• How to make the simplest electric motor
• Interactive LED Dining Table
• Make A Cylon Jack-O-Lantern
• How to hack LEDs into Lego minifigures for Halloween and the Lego Abominations
• Turn an RC car into a floor sweeper!
• How to Build a Better Bat Costume and a Crocodile Costume
• Building a Robotic Dalek Pumpkin
• Dessert sushi

Here are some of the other stories that we really liked, even though they didn’t get as much attention:

• Edible origami cranes
• Demonstrate Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion in one minute
• High-tech holiday decorations
• Christmas chaos
• Vintage Remote TV-B-Gone Case Mod
• Crafty fridge magnets

We’ve also (somehow) become “authoritative” in several subjects. According to technorati we are an authority on cooking, DIY, and craft. What this really means is that not very many folks tag their blogs well for technorati, but hey, we don’t mind being the top authority on electronics.

So, maybe all this popularity and authority means that we really are making the world a better place (one evil mad scientist at a time). Or it could be a sign that our reign of terror is getting off to a great start, Muahahahaaaa! If you think so, (shameless plug ahead) feel free to nominate us for the 2007 Bloggies, perhaps in the new blogs category. But hurry, nominations end on January 10. In the meantime, we’re going to bask in the glow of our rankings and look forward to the next six months.

Thanks again!
— Lenore and Windell