Using glue, scissors, tape, and straws, Kiteman built this simple turbine – seems a great project to try at home with your mini-makers. – How to make a toy turbine More: Pringles wind turbine (Pleech) -and- turbine round up
ToolCrib has a roundup of free sawhorse plans, and if you can’t find what you’re looking for in a sawhorse there, I don’t know where you will. Unless, of course, you’ve designed your own. Please share your plans with us in the comments! Via Core77. Image from Woodworkingtips.com.
Mister Jalopy of Dinosaurs and Robots points us to these cool collections of classic camping kerosene lamps and stoves. Having spent the better part of my youth hiking and camping, I fondly remember a lot of these models. Spiritburner.com Motoshi Makino’s Classic Camping Collection Other awesome stove/lantern collections via Spiritburner.com
This tabletop storyteller created by Kyoto University’s Robo-Garage recites The Tale of Genji with accentuating gestures and a retractable fan for dramatic emphasis. This would have been quite an upgrade from the story-bot I had as a kid. – Murasaki-bot
There have been plenty of LEGO and other recreations of WALL-E, but how’s this for one: instructables user KaptinScarlet made a tutorial for making a soft plush EVE toy from the popular movie.
Bricogeek’s “Ardugame” is and Arduino based handheld gameboy-look-alike that looks like a lot of fun. The machine’s equipped with an OLED display, speaker, accelerometer, and even a DB9 port for multiplayer expansion. – Ardugame [google translation]
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Rachael Rabbit explains how to use up the scrap yarn from your stash to create this multicolored knitted ball.
