Todbot’s wrap up (and slides) of The Sketching in Hardware ’08 conference! The Sketching in Hardware ’08 conference was held a RISD in Providence, Rhode Island this year. Both RISD and Providence were very welcoming and I think we had a lot of fun. Once again, Mike pulls off an awesome conference. For my talk, […]
On Ben Heck’s forums, this modder shows how he managed to cram an Xbox 360 wired controller inside the shell of a PS3 Dual Shock shell. This mod is done with the PS3 board (original version) stripped of almost all of its parts and the controller’s daughter board kept intact (mostly) and the CL board […]
Ann Wood sent a flock of her beautiful hand-stitched birds to summer camp, and has shared some wonderful photos from their trip. Raise your hand if you’d love to see these gorgeous photos end up in a fancy-schmancy coffee table book someday! (Publishers, take note.)
The middle day of 5 in 5 rebranded Bed-Stuy, counted clicks, twittered literature, resistored a dress, gamed a subwoofer, hacked Peggy into Lite-Brite, mapped our past, threw light sculptures, sampled soft circuits, waisted a skirt of waste, retold one story of a man named Brady and another from Beverly Cleary (a lovely lady). Guest Starring […]
I’m really digging these reusable fabric produce bags by SoManyIdeas, which are handpainted with botanical motifs, sugar skulls, and more. I’ve been looking for a way to avoid using plastic produce bags from the grocery store, and these may be just the ticket.
I love these Marimekko-inspired cupcakes spotted on Cupcakes Take the Cake. They were created by Flickr user Paulahennig and were based on Marimekko’s “Unikko” line of fabrics (pictured below).
As part of her research at the MIT Media Lab, Anita Lillie did some investigations of her own sleep habits recording motion sensor data via Arduino – I outfitted myself with sensors that would help me determine how my position changes over the course of a night’s sleep. I used three accelerometers as tilt sensors, […]
