Make & Craft Magazines Embrace Recycled Paper — All future issues will feature 30% post-consumer recycled content paper — Our Benevolent Overlords at O’Reilly Media have announced that future issues of both MAKE and CRAFT (starting with volumes 12 and 5 respectively) will have 30% recycled paper content (up from the 10% currently being used). […]
Dingolishious tipped us off to a cheap way to receive power outage notifications, as well as remotely power-cycle electronics. Our remote wireless site keep being unplugged or having the circuit trip from some combination of cleaning devices. I took a spare UPS and asked if we could get a $200 SNMP card for it so […]
Patti Schiendelman, our indexer for the upcoming Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders, was poking around at the site of the German science novelty catalog who carries the Stirling Engine coffee cup, and noticed that they have a bunch of very cool working papercraft astronomy gear, including the Newtonian reflector pictured above. These look like they […]
The i-Sobot, Tomy’s mini-humanoid, has barely been stacked on stores shelves and already toybot enthusiasts have been busy making silly videos with them (as has been widely done with Robosapien and other consumer robot “toys”). The above all-in-good-fun goofiness is brought to you by Robert Oschler, chief meatbot at Robots Rule. Looking at this elaborate […]
Inhabitat features a recycled Chiquita banana carton chandelier by Anneke Jakobs while a student at Utrecht School of Product Design. From the site: The chandelier is for subtle ambient lighting only, but we are most impressed by the designer’s creative use of castaway materials for an upscale, brand-subverting object. To see more photos of the […]
Sara points us to this fab dress made out of UNO cards by Kitty’s Creations as part of Craftster’s Total Board Game Revamp challenge. Link.
This Instructable shows you how to create an electro-mechanical deadbolt that’s controlled by an X10 module and remote. Build a Remote Control Deadbolt – Link
