Holiday Projects: More from West Coast Crafty
Susan of West Coast Crafty has posted up more cool project links (yay!) to her ever growing holiday project and gift list. Yes, there’s still time to make some of these before Christmas! Link.
Year: 2006
Roombas go caroling
Tod and his bots send some seasons greetings, he writes – “The Roomba family was out caroling. They stopped by and sang a few songs. I caught a few on tape. I think they were a little tipsy on mulled 30W or something. This was a demo of RoombaMidi2, a Mac OS X program to […]
Electrolytic etching of brass for Moleskin notebooks
Phil @ MAKE has featured a great project: Jake says, “I used a 19th Century technique called electrolytic etching to create brass cover plates for a set of Moleskin notebooks that I plan to give as gifts these season.” [ via ] Link.
Electrolytic etching of brass for Moleskin notebooks
Jake writes in with his latest project – “I used a 19th Century technique called electrolytic etching to create brass cover plates for a set of Moleskin notebooks that I plan to give as gifts these season.” – Link.
Snow bike kit
Peter writes – “Here’s a cool kit that will allow you to transform your mountain bike into a bike that you can ride on the snow! You just add the front ski and the back rear-drive and you’re set. No tools required.” [via] – Link.
Debug Your Xbox XNA Game Without an Xbox
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Digitized Doodle Dome
It’s a sphere drawing etcha-sketch-style drawing machine using PICaxe microcontrollers and old floppy drive steppers. Wow! The Doodle Dome was a toy made by Tyco in the early 1990’s. It is basically an Etch-A-Sketch type deal, except that instead of a flat rectangle, it is (most of) a sphere. Like an Etch-a-Sketch, there are two […]
