Here’s an fascinating gallery of people who made clothing from their dog’s hair (dogs also pictured)… There seems to be enough interest in this that there’s a book on it too “Knitting with dog hair” via CRAFT. I’m impressed, a great use of dog hair that would normally just get brushed away… I’m going to […]
Ryan Frank’s inkuku chair (Zulu for chicken) is constructed from recycled aluminum coated in plastic bags via Giz.
Integrated GPS on a DELL Mini 9 via Engadget. Acabtp writes… So, I wanted to add a GPS receiver to my Mini 9, but I didn’t want to have to use a dongle or other external device. I figured that a netbook really ought to just have it built in, so that’s what I decided […]
Core77 has a writeup with links to a few places offering different services for turning Fido’s hair into a fuzzy sweater. I like the subtitle of the book Knitting with Dog Hair: “Better A Sweater From A Dog You Know and Love Than From A Sheep You’ll Never Meet.”
Okay, the camels aren’t solar-powered, but the refrigerators on their backs are. The panels/fridges are used to cool vaccines delivered to nomadic communities in Africa. In transit, the lightweight, foldable solar panel powers the camel-pack refrigeration system. Once the camel convoy arrives at the remote health clinic site, the panel can be used in combination […]
Learning to code an Arduino can be pretty confusing as most calculations will occur ‘behind the scenes’ of a sketch. Bitlash could help provide some quick answers for testing/learning – Bitlash is a command line shell for the serial port. It runs on Arduino and interprets commands that you type. It is intended for those […]
Craftster user Mustachiopi embroidered this clever digestive system t-shirt to help her deal with the daily struggle with Crohn’s disease, which leaves her thinking of such things more than most.
