HOW TO – Make an Elephant Pincushion
This elephant pincushion on Cut Out + Keep is pretty big for just pins. Luckily it will look great by your sewing machine with or without the pins. Link.
Month: March 2008
HOW TO – Mechanical hit-counter using serial/no MCU
Aah, traffic to your site never sounded so satisfyingly physical before – Bob sent us info on his physical hit counter which uses no microcontroller or complex parts, just an RS232 connection, a few electronic components and s little software. (well of course there is that clicking counter unit as well) Still, a fresh approach […]
Paint roller POV
Carlos sent us this interesting take on persistence of vision tech. This “low tech – POV spinning display” uses an arduino, paint roller, and the contact braids from a toy slot car. Clever design – those contacts act as an effective timer/trigger, simplifying the manual animation(aka – waving) process. – Link Related: Menorah-POV – Link […]
USS Midway – Giant steam powered aircraft carrier
If you’re in San Diego and want to see a giant example of extreme engineering (steam powered too) – check out the Midway museum, it’s an aircraft carrier circa WWII that served all the way up to the Kuwait war (1992) – it was he longest serving aircraft carrier in the history of the U.S. […]
ArtBots 2008 call for works
MAKE contributor Douglas Repetto writes: ArtBots is pleased to announce that the fifth international ArtBots exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots will take place at the Trinity College Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland on September 19-21, 2008. Creators of talented robots are invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in the show. We […]
Steam powered rowboat
Crabfu has made another amazing steam powered vehicle. From the video, it looks like they are still in the development phase, but it works really well. I am sure the final boat will be just as amazing as the other steam-powered vehicles. – Link Related: RC controlled steam beetle – Link Maker Faire: Steam turbine […]
Conrad Milster’s steam power plant @ Pratt Institute
Last New Years Eve, I had the pleasure of attending the annual steam-whistle-blow at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. The experience was loud, cold, soggy, and quite simply awesome. Steam pipes stretched across the campus lawn to power a large strip of whistles, in a variety of sizes. If you moved in close enough […]
