Hi Crafters! I’m here to tell you about an exciting new contest our sponsor Intel’s throwing on the new site, Need a Tech Makeover. Just submit your story or nominate someone you love for a chance to win a $5000 tech makeover and training from the experts at Hot Hardware. All entries must be submitted […]
Via HackedGadgets comes this promising-looking self-balancing robot, still a work in progress: Woohoo! I now have an Analog Devices ADXRS150 gyro on a Sparkfun breakout board (left). That, in combination with my Dimension Engineering DE-ACCM3D accelerometer, should get this thing balancing once I get the software squared away. After playing with it for a while […]
This not-so-little girl was created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company as part of a public show entitled The Sultan’s Elephant. She’s part a cast of amazing giant wooden puppets created by the French theatre group. – The Sultan’s Elephant
Lime and Violet tips us off to this stylish knitting pattern by Mira Ranki, available as a free download via Ravelry.
The latest issue of Servo magazine (September) is out and it has a lot of great stuff in it. I subscribe to both Robot and Servo and enjoy them both. Published by the venerable Nuts & Volts magazine, Servo skews a bit more towards the deeper geek,while Robot is geared more towards the casual hobbyist, […]
We delivered two Make Mobile visits to IBM’s IGNITE Camp (an enrichment program for boys), and to ~50 teens at the Latino College Prep Academy (through Maker Tom Zimmerman who splits his time between LCPA and IBM). Our featured Maker was once again Scott Gasparian. This time, he brought along two fantastic demos to emphasize […]
The raft was made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna fuselage…. Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land. The raft was made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna fuselage. […]
