Yarn Mosaic Art
Mandy from Sappy Moosetree has been wowing me with her yarn mosaic artwork–love this this superhero sockmonkey, which took her 3 days to make.
Month: August 2008
Solder-rings
If you find the intricacies of soldering a bit too tedious, you may find these tiny solder rings come in handy. Just slip one over your component lead and apply iron. You could also probably make these yourself before starting work on a board.- SchmartSolder (If you enjoy the process of soldering as is – […]
10 Creative Responses to Junk Mail
Treehugger points to this fun post on ProQuo, highlighting ten creative responses to junk mail, which include shredding the non-glossy stuff to use as garden mulch, and making paper.
Sanguino microcontroller platform – Arduino’s big brother
If you love the Arduino software but find yourself hampered by the included ATmega168 chip’s memory size or pin count, Zach Hoeken has a solution – Sanguino is a new microcontroller board inspired by the Arduino. We took the biggest baddest 40-pin DIP that Atmel makes and made a board with it. Its based on […]
Morning Mummies
Unfurled created these hilarious (and delicious-sounding) “Morning Mummies” using strips of bread dough wrapped around a chocolatey Nutella filling, then baked.
Felted Wool Balls
The Lazy Milliner tips us off to these colorful felted balls Turvid whipped up for her kids using bits and pieces of wool yarn. I love the marbleized look they ended up with.
Adding facial recognition and RF control to Pleo
GRIP (Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology), a multi-professional workgroup at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany, has several detailed tutorials on adding a “spycam” to Pleo, to create a facial recognition system (via off-bot processing on a PC), and an XBee Module for RF communications to/from Pleo. Working with the Pleo Platform [Thanks, Robert!]