Month: December 2008

Wooden robot art

Wooden robot art

The always-crafty and industrious Jeffrey and Jillian over at Because We Can have created these really cool CNC-milled puzzle-like wooden robots. They stand 10″ tall and are made from 100% sustainably-harvested American Maple. Finished with water-based dyes and waterborne lacquer. Available in blue, dark brown and blonde. $40 each. They also sell some pretty awesome […]

More robot gift guides!

More robot gift guides!

Here’s a great robot gift guide from the folks at robots.net, Steve writes – It’s time once again for our annual countdown of the top 10 Christmas gift ideas for robot geeks. With the growing popularity of robots, everyone knows at least one person who spends all their time building strange little machines. What do […]

Sustainable penguins

Sustainable penguins

Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo is in the process of building a new Humboldt penguin exhibit that conserves energy; they’re installing a natural filtration system, and they’re using geothermal energy to keep the pool at a penguin-pleasing temperature range of 50-60 degrees Farenheit. State-of-the-art engineering allows the new penguin exhibit to help us reduce our environmental […]

Joss Whedon on Crafts and Craftiness

Remember when Kim Werker put the call out to crafters to help get the message to Joss Whedon that she’d like to interview him? Well, it worked! Visit CrochetMe to read the whole wonderfully geeky thing, which includes gems like this (on knitting versus crochet): It’s an age-old war. Like the werewolves and the vampires. […]