Here’s an idea I got from Alton Brown on Good Eats that I sketched up in my Maker’s Notebook. It’s for throwing a self-serve shish kabob party using a temporary fire pit made from bricks, sand, and charcoal. You make the width of the pit so that your skewers fit over it and the handles […]
Instructable to get you started on how to recycle old PCB components. More: ‘Crush and zap’ recycles circuit boards more cleanly. Motherboard PCB bracelet. Procuring Electronic Components. Procuring lowtech sensors and actuators.
Peter Shekel writes in with a link to this nifty poster download for making a sock monster, created by Nicky Gibson at the Monster Munch blog. From the pages of CRAFT: CRAFT:06 – Hand-Sewn Free-Range Monsters by Moxie
Andrew was kind enough to post additional info on his excellent USB camera project including wiring diagram and source code. I started this project without really having any idea where it would end up. I started off by deciding it could be interesting to build a device that would sample a 3-axis magnetometer and a […]
BurdaStyle shares some helpful hints on taking better photos, which should be useful to crafters, bloggers, or anyone who likes to share their creations online.
Via DIY Drones comes this video of the Stanford STARMAC (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent) quadcopters: STARMAC, the Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent is a testbed of 6 quadrotor helicopter unmanned aerial vehicles that fly indoors and outdoors to experiment with autonomous agent algorithms. This video presents an overview of the […]
From the CRAFT Flickr Pool: user joonbeam (Arlington, MA) made this upcycled pocket from an Utz bag with the iconic snacking little girl.
