From the MAKE Flickr pool, user SUB Boy Photography writes: This is the ThingaMunny, aka “The Goblinator.” It incorperates my two favorite DIY kits; Kid Robot’s Munny, and Bleep Labs’ Thingamakit. Thanks to Bleep Labs, Kid Robot, and HackADay. PS: Can anyone guess what I used for the jetpack?
Unique Game for Party Amusement Modern Mechanix, 1933 – surely to be a Wii game soon…. “SPIKE the Potato†is a highly entertaining game for any party. All that is needed is a single large potato, a number of paper cones and some needles. The paper cones are about 7 in. long and 1-1/2″ in […]
Tim Writes: As a way to support my son’s interest in technology and supplement what is, except for computer class, an almost tech-free school experience, we have created a web show called WREXLabs (Reverse Engineering eXperimental Labs (the W is silent)), in which we take things apart to see how they work. We’ve got three […]
Zakka Life made up some quick and easy gift tags using fabric scraps and paper shipping tags.
The “$1 Recognizer” is a simple gesture recognition algorithm created by Andy Wilson from Microsoft Research and Jacob Wobbrock and Yang Li from the University of Washington. By simple, I mean that it’s under 100 lines of code that you can quickly add to your application to give it gesture recognition capabilities. To enable novice […]
Raise your hand if – as a kid – you got giddy seeing the rolls and rolls of Mrs. Grossman’s stickers in the store. Unrolling and tearing off lengths of the fun, bright stickers was a huge treat for me as a kid. If you were the same way and are in the Bay Area, […]
HOW TO – Fool a stoplight into thinking your bike is a car – The Loop Sensor Activator via Core77. A common problem for bicyclists, and in particular for bicycle commuters, is the traffic loop sensor. These are the devices which detect the presence of vehicles to control the sequencing of traffic lights at many […]
