Monty on the Run, re-enacted by A Hamster
I can’t believe how much work someone put into this adorableness. I’d love to see remakes with other animals and games. Sonic with real hedgehogs? Via Cute Overload
Month: July 2008
Fashioning Technology Book Event at Craft Gym in San Francisco Tomorrow!
Fashioning Technology author Syuzi Pakhchyan will be holding a demonstration and having a book signing at Craft Gym (1452 Bush Street) in San Francisco on Saturday, July 19 from 5pm – 7pm. Come by to meet Syuzi and watch her demonstration, enjoy a drink and nibble on treats! Here’s more about the event: Fashioning Technology: […]
Tinkering around
Gever Tulley from the Tinkering School gave us this tinkering update: We’re off to test our canvas and PVC boats (eerily synchronistically coincident with the PVC and duct tape boat article) today in the harbor. Our boats are made with canvas that we are sealing with melted wax. The kids also built a cantilever bridge […]
Shadow Art Fair in Ypsilanti, MI
If you’re near Ypsilanti, MI this Saturday, be sure to stop by the Shadow Art Fair, featuring dozens of great indie craft vendors, including Molly Mast, Boh Bon Soap, and Clairigami. Shadow Art Fair Saturday, July 19 2008, 12pm-12am @ The Corner Brewery 720 Norris Street Ypsilanti, MI 48198 Ph: (734)480-2739
Handmade Shoes from Recycled Sneakers
From the CRAFT Flickr pool: user seschloss added a photo of her friend Josh’s shoes with custom made uppers (and recycled sneaker soles). He does a pretty thorough walkthrough of his process (ups and downs) on the Sewer Sewist blog, and even if the glue’s a bit funky around the edges, I still think these […]
HOW TO – Build a one-motor walker
I featured Jerome Demer’s ingenious little one-motor walker in my book Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots. I’ve been hoping he’d put up an Instructable and he finally has. This is a bit of a finicky mechanical build, but worth the effort. It uses a standard BEAM bicore circuit as its brain (via the 74HCT240 […]
Make it stop: Roomba with chimp head
This little guy scares the daylights out of me: a Roomba topped with an animatronic chimp head. No purpose is claimed, but I think it’s safe to say it’s for scaring pets and children. Does it remind anyone else of that episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force where they put Carl’s head on an RC […]
