“Digital” wooden clock
Check out this wooden clock that’s manually adjusted to reflect the current time. It’s an art piece by Mark Formanek in collaboration with Datenstrudel. Via VVORK.
Month: August 2008
Blimpin’ ain’t easy
Blimpin’ Ain’t Easy: Crossing the English Channel in a Pedal-Powered Airship*… Thanks Sam! You know it’s hard up here for a blimp. Or so says Stephane Rousson, a 39-year-old Frenchman who’s hoping to cross the English Channel in a homemade, pedal-powered airship. As a child, he was captivated by the Gossamer Albatross, the first entirely […]
HP 20b biz calc can be modded
A few makers sent this in… the latest HP 20b biz calc can be modded’ (they’re releasing a dev kit). I downloaded the dev kit, they’re not messing around, schematic is included. Gang, this is an Atmel ARM, an LCD with the power supply done – what the heck is going on here? Way over […]
Beagle Board – ultra tiny, 2-Watt Linux system
Hackszine pal Patti Schiendelman tipped me off to the Beagle Board, a spartan little embedded platform, perfect for all things hackable. It’s based on the TI OMAP3 processor, which is packaged with 128MB of DDR RAM and 256MB of NAND Flash all on the single chip in the center of the board. Instead of including […]
Daisy Janie Fabric Giveaway
Jan of Daisy Janie, an independent textile designer (one of the 15 designers mentioned in this post), is running a fabric giveaway on her blog right now through Fri, August 22. A randomly drawn winner will receive a triple mix pack of 13″ x 9″ swatches of her original fabrics. Visit Daisy Janie’s blog to […]
Ganzbot: An Arduino Robot That Twitters
This is a really cool robot head that can show emotions as it reads incoming twitter feeds. The web site has a lot of information about the build, including program downloads and the schematics of the interface board. I definitely want a Ganzbot in my studio. This funny little robot has eyes, eyebrows and a […]
Paper telephone sculpture
Jenny @ CRAFT found this sculpture of a rotary phone made from paper tickets and scotch tape, tring tring!