Year: 2006

Homemade light up slippers

Homemade light up slippers

Tandw writes – “We thought of a way where in people who usually wake up at night to go to the bathroom or get a drink from the refrigerator don’t have to switch on the lights that would probably wake up his or her roommate or the whole household. The solution: slippers with flashlights. “ […]

Watch Seeds Germinate

Watch Seeds Germinate

BG writes – “I wanted my 2 year old son to be able to see seeds germinate, so we bought about 20 different kinds of seeds and beans from the bulk section of a grocery store (total cost 12 cents!). We rolled up paper towels and stuffed them into a jar, slipped the seeds in […]

Open Source Hardware and Industry

Open Source Hardware and Industry

Dan from Squid-Labs/Instructable on open source hardware – “Here are some of my thoughts on the open source hardware movement and industry. This is not to say that we are only concerned with industry here, but more that we saw a lot of struggling over the years in finding viable business models around open source […]

Orange-Peel house for campers

Orange-Peel house for campers

This would be fun to make! Popular Mechanics 1955 – “Developed in Germany, a portable shelter for camping or trailer travel looks like a gigantic orange –and peels apart almost like one. The parts of the shelter are shaped much like the segments of an orange peel. One person can fasten the segments together to […]