Month: May 2008

Motor art

Motor art

Lockwasher’s motor art via Land-o-links. Pictured here, the alumarocket car sculpture… Welcome to the 22nd century, or should that be the 4th dimension (I always get those two confused) either way your ready to blast off in our newest invention – The Aluma Rocket. OK, sure, It’s really just an aluminum flower vase with really […]

Mechanical music box from scrap

Mechanical music box from scrap

Dug North sent word of this interesting weight-driven music box – “Andante Grazioso” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / KV331) played by a “Mechanical Music Box in a Drawer” made from recycling materials found in electronic-waste, bulky trash and at home. That can must be somewhat thick in order achieve such a bell-like tone – an impressive […]

Arduino Nano

Arduino Nano

Just when you thought you had them all, the Arduino mutates yet again – The new Arduino Nano is the smallest and most versatile Arduino board yet. Designed and manufactured by US-based Gravitech, it has all the functionality of an Arduino Diecimila in a compact, breadboard-ready design. The Nano includes an ATmega168 microcontroller (w/ bootloader), […]