Neil Gershenfeld of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms has written Fab, a book that describes the possibilities that home fabrication machines will create, and how people today are using fabrication labs that the Center created.
Keith’s Electronics blog is exactly what it sounds like, a blog about electronics. On the site there are dozens of projects, step by steps and photos, good stuff! – Link.
I’ve compiled a brief tutorial on getting started with Arduino for the absolute beginner. I’ll cover where to learn, what to buy, and where to go for help. Why should you crafters be interested in Arduino? The Arduino platform, more-so than any other way of incorporating electronics into your projects, is geared towards do-it-yourselfers. It’s […]
Make this sprocket and inntertube belt from recycled bike parts with this Instructables tutorial by reno_dakota. Link.
AlgoMantra writes in – So I made this totally tedious but kinda clever thing on my Nokia N70, on which as you might know – one can write Python scripts. So my script logs the cellphone tower IDs that my phone is connected to, does some rudimentary clustering analysis. This enables me to assign say […]
Doc writes – The World Yo-Yo Contest gets bigger and better every year. The event is split into several different categories, but one of my favorite divisions the World Mod Contest. In this division, competitors do their best to create the most unique entries either from scratch or from existing yo-yo tech. Check out S.Kon’s […]
If you’re in the Portland, OR area this Saturday don’t miss the big event, Scrap’s Iron Artist 5 is happening in lot on the corner of North Vancouver and Failing. From the site: Often described as Iron Chef meets Junkyard Wars, Iron Artist is a sculpture competition in which ten teams of artists receive exactly […]
