Halloween Pipe Cleaner Ornaments
Sarah at The Small Object shows you how to make quick and easy Halloween pipe cleaner ornaments. Link.
Year: 2007
Arduino-controlled kegerator
David Fowler of uC Hobby writes: Sean shows us how to use an Arduino for kegerator temperature control. A Kegerator is a beer keg built inside a refrigerator. Anyone want a cold beer? He discusses the home brewing process and how a microcontroller can be applied to this and many other sensing and control tasks […]
Recycled Bottle Cap Bowl
Zakka Life made this recycled bottle cap bowl using the inside of Coke bottle caps and hot glue. The bowl was made for her town’s yearly recycle art contest! Good luck! Link.
TV retro casemod
Steve Lodefink sent us a link to pics of this 1957 Magnavox set re-used as the cabinet for a modern (CRT) TV and stereo system. 1957 Magnavox TV – Link
Piezoelectric concept backpack
Researchers at Michigan Technological University, Arizona State University and NanoSonic Inc. are working on harvesting the ambient energy of walking and carrying a backpack with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a nylon-like material with piezoelectric properties. This would be great for multi-day hiking, since you wouldn’t have carry heavy batteries to keep your GPS or cellphone juiced! […]
Lolcat Jack-o-lantern
Jonathan Berger made this awesome 360 composite of his lolcat jack-o-lantern which quoth, “I can has punkin!!” Photo on Flickr – Link.
Siege Weapons of Love
Jacob Resneck at Cool Hunting writes: Collaborators and co-conspirators Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich present “Siege Weapons of Love” an anti-militarism statement that’s akin to spiking rifle barrels with flowers, albeit on a grander scale. The British artists lampoon artillery pieces Oldenburg-style with cartoonish inflatable pink phalli making a strong statement against the sexual perversity […]