When there’s one quality how-to on something you’re interested in, you may or may not build it. But, when you hit around half a dozen well-documented builds, it gets a lot harder to put the project off. (Image from Rat Patrol) Such is the case with me and tall bikes: Building a better tall bike. […]
Dorkbot Austin #16 is this Thursday, and it’s full of steampunk wearable robotic wonders: Jason Delaney’s steampunk (literally) homebrew still that can be used to make alcohol, herbal oils, purify water, etc. Chase Hammock’s touchscreen driven wearable multimedia computer Adam Iseman’s Ard-e, a sub-$100 robotics platform (Image courtesy Adrian Ward) We’re at Cafe Mundi, 8pm […]
Poppytalk is sharing a free poster to download, print out at home and frame for instant art. It says “Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy”.
SwissMiss found this Unmentionables Ready Booklet for letting people know the unmentionable things in life. It caught my eye because I have always wanted to make my own version of something like this for living in NY City. I am never sure if it should be like a ticket book or stickers that I can […]
Watch the video profile of artist Maya Hayuk on Etsy’s Handmade Portraits series. From the site: Muralist, photographer, painter, music video creator… Maya Hayuk prefers to simply call herself an artist, because under that moniker she has the freedom to work in whatever medium she wants at any given time. Maya has painted murals around […]
The “FOLKESTRONOMY” project consists of a mobile mapping device that connects to the Internet to update a map in realtime as participants interact with the project. The build consists of an Arduino connected to a GPS device that reads the coordinates and relays them to available wireless networks. This project is more complicated than this […]
This inventive real-time music visualisation system uses an Arduino, piezo sensors, webcams, a 3G network card, Bluetooth adaptor, and other connectors to produce some pretty interesting visual output. Check out the link for the details on the hardware involved in this project. Live Musical Performances Visualisation System
