These students came up with a great solution for expanding their wireless network. Apparently there wasn’t any power source available for the network repeater, so they build a wind turbine. These should be on every rooftop, in every city. Dan built the charging circuit himself. Essentially the windmill recharges two 12V batteries and the circuit […]
The green keeps on coming today – this San Francisco disposal company has its own sculpture park featuring work constructed from their main area of business – The Sculpture Garden at SF Recycling & Disposal is — as far as we know — the only art park located at a garbage company. The garden is […]
Check out these tentacled animal finger puppets with… cute hats? Ok, I admit it, I have no idea what animal these are, but they’re certainly neat!
Vroom! Power a balsa wood vehicle from the energy of a mousetrap! Fun and easy project! No mice were harmed during the filming of this video. To download Mousetrap Powered Vehicle MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
Decor 8 links to this tutorial by Sweet Jessie showing how to make a fabric-covered corkboard in an embroidery hoop. What a great place to pin up your crafty inspirations!
Michael wins the best Guitar hero hack of all time! He created a circuit that takes in composite video, performs signal processing, and then correctly “hits†buttons on the guitar hero controller based upon what’s on the screen – AutoGuitarHero via Bunnie. What is the story? “I knew the only way I was going to […]
This Saturday is the Phoenix Indie Craftorama, an art fair of indie craft collectives from all around the area including The Phoenix Fridas, Phoenix Craft Mafia, Las Bandidas del Arte, the AZ Crafty Burritos, The Purdy Girls, Calaca Art Collective, and the Conspire co-op. I’ll be there running a table for Craft with magazines, box […]
