Visit Little Cotton Rabbits for a free pattern showing you how to make these sweet knitted Easter eggs. It may only be January, but if you start knitting now you’ll have a colorful nest full of eggs ready by the time Easter rolls around. Link.
Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes: A few weeks ago we showed you how to build a BristleBot, a tiny vibrating robot (vibrobot) that is formed from the unlikely union of a toothbrush (with directional bristles) and a vibrating pager motor. Despite its simplicity, it drives like a drunken bat out of hell– propelled […]
Similar to the drive that shows its contents on its surface, that we blogged about last month, the “Domino Pen Drive” concept by Marcos Breder brings this idea to portable flash drives. Consisting of two drives that connect to form one Domino, the drive indicates its remaining storage capacity by turning its dots white when […]
Those mad hatters over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs have been at it again. After Windell wowed us with his simple but surprisingly motile “Bristlebot,” Lenore has taken it in a whole different direction with a snail plushie that moves by the directional motion of its velvet fibers. A Velvet Bristlebot Racing Snail – Link […]
Over the holiday Bunnie made a robo-Chumby, he writes – The final control paths for the system thus looked like this: sensors -> chumby server app -> UDP packet -> 802.11 wifi transmitted over 10’s of meters -> client client app -> phidget driver -> USB -> phidget board -> solid state relay -> RC […]
Crafter Jasna.Janekovic posted this impressive fabric basket in the Crafters Companion Flickr pool. Check out the group to see this and other photos posted by folks who’ve made projects from the great Anna Torberg-edited book The Crafter’s Companion. Link.
Mike writes – Do you like the idea of tesla coils and other high-voltage sparking stuff, but don’t have the time, money or patience to build something that elaborate? Here’s a fun little project that can make big, fat, noisy sparks at least 2 inches long, and can be built very quickly and cheaply. The […]
