Meep meep! An automotive mechanic has driven into the record books – by building the world’s lowest van. Andy Saunders converted a 7ft 8ins high VW Camper into a 3.3ft high version – in just three days. The 1980 Type 25 camper had 70,000 miles on the clock when Saunders and three friends transformed it. […]
Fig. 1 (a) Architecture of the optofluidic microscope (OFM); set of three arrows: illumination; single arrow: flow direction. (b) Photograph of the OFM prototype compared with a U.S. quarter. The actual nanoaperture array is 600 µm long. (c) The top view of the OFM; denotes the isolated aperture; denotes the corresponding aperture, as explained in […]
Crochet this beautiful Maggie Wrap by Robin Chachula of Crochet by Faye. The pattern is featured on Knitting Daily TV and is from her new book, Blueprint Crochet.
Apparently even kidney dialysis machines designed for children were too big for Millie Kelly’s 6-pound newborn body, so Dr. Malcom Coulthard (UK) made her a miniature dialysis machine – in his garage. It just goes to show that innovation can still happen at the individual level, even in the medical field.
The Buckminster Fuller Institute has an annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a $100,000 prize for “comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health.” The 2008 prize was awarded in June, in NYC. Check out their Challenge webpage for a list of submissions and winners. The 2009 Challenge will begin this fall. Welcome to the […]
I recognize the conductive stretch fabric used in this project from the Less EMF sample pack; it’s luxurious and lovely to touch. Adrian Freed at the Center for New Music & Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley made this multitouch gesture controller: The fabric is stretched in an embroidery hoop and draped over an inverted circular […]
Trossen Robotics has announced the winners of their latest Trossen Robotics Community building contest. This scratch-built Wall-E, by TRC member 4mem8, won first prize (a SG-5UT Robotic Arm). Trossen writes: We got to watch 4mem8 bring this guy to life and document every painstaking step that he took building this Wall-E robot from scratch. That’s […]
