What do you do about a night-light that has to stay on while your child falls asleep, and you don’t want to have to go in and turn it off every night? Buy a timer? No, that’s not fun. The solution: teach her something! So we repurposed an old broken desk lamp carcass, I taught […]
This is a good starting point for making your own electronic post-it note. Be warned, this is not a beginner project to say the least. The author admits a Basic Stamp is not the ideal micro-controller. Maybe an Arduino would be better? – Link
The exhibition, “I Want To Believe” by Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim Museum in New York presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing and is an amazing feat of balance, lights, and energy. Really worth checking out just to figure out how he managed to suspend these […]
Blissed Out shares her experiences stitching up her very first skirt, using instructions gleaned from Diana Rupp’s great book, Sew Everything Workshop. The results are lovely, especially with the doilies she added for extra sass. Link.
Tomotaka Takahashi demoing his robot minions bots at the recent Robotopia Rising event in Washington, DC. MANOI, FT, Chroino Robot Demos – [via] Link
#6 is a small, easy to build, inexpensive, bare-bones computer. Like the Arduino, it was designed to easily teach art students about microcontrollers, interactivity, and electronics. It’s only $25 (cheaper than the Arduino) is open source, and uses open source software for programming. It uses a very popular chip (AVR) so there’s a good code […]
Sock Wars III starts off May 9th, so get ready! From the Sock Wars site: If you are brave enough sign up to do battle you battle you will be emailed a top secret assassination dossier on 9th May 2008. This file contains the details of your target and an exclusive, never-been-published-before knitting pattern with […]
