Equal parts hydroponic garden, aquarium, and interactive art, the Farm Fountain is an experiment in self-contained, indoor ecosystem design created by artists Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs. The idea is that you can raise edible fish and cycle their waste nutrients through a hanging garden which filters the water before returning it to the aquarium. […]
Peter writes in – Matt Hallock has a how to for building a lo-fi fisheye camera lens for around $10 using supplies found at your local hardware store. Fisheye lenses are crazy cost prohibitive for most of us, but this method gets you 90 percent of the effect, plus a little Holga-esque unpredictability to boot!
Jordan writes in… Could you please post a warning about engraving Moleskines. We found out through one of the other guys who also engraves the books (Joe Mansfield) that the covers contain PVC. We have gotten a good bit of internet coverage on our site, and I know (having had several emails from people) that […]
Coco Knits has a tutorial for how to cut rags into knittable strips. You can also use new materials like plain and inexpensive muslin bed sheets from IKEA, like in the picture. via Craft & Found.
Like to play video games? Too lazy to paddle around in your canoe? Well I have the perfect solution for you. This boat is powered by a small electric motor and the steering is via a Wii Nunchuck and an Arduino. Let’s just hope the batteries don’t die, then you might have to paddle! Read […]
cc Etsy is running a project, calling for videos of essential or favorite tools. This one takes the cake for me – a pedal-powered tablesaw demonstrated and explained by Etsy user Woodmosaics (from Spickard, Missouri). Incredible! He has a flickr set of it, too.
Sarc had a tibook with a broken LCD, so he removed it and uses an external monitor. From the MacNN forum post: Since I operate the computer on “closed-lid” mode, I was having trouble keeping the LCD closed because it didn’t allow the heat to dissipate, so the fans where running constantly … I removed […]
