Linus Torvald has a blog and out of the gate he has a great post on a kid’s internet usage tracker he made, nice! Linus writes… …I’m happy with the kids being comfy with a computer, but we’ve set some basic rules for it. Notably, they can’t just play all those flash games all the […]
Wow, upsilandre made a computer in the PS3’s LittleBigPlanet beta. It’s a mechanical calculator that can do addition and subtraction: 610 magnetic switches, 500 wires, 430 pistons, 70 emitters… Here’s a video!
Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s “Earth From Above” – Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States – to New York City for the first time in 2009. Aiming to inspire people to think globally about sustainable living, Arthus-Bertrand has been photographing unique views of our planet, seen from the sky, since 1994 – […]
This week: A Chindogu Master Shows Off His Inventions, Hand-Guided Spotlight, Decorating For Earthquake Safety, Tilt-Shifting in Quartz Composer, See My Dimple’s Light Writing, Gainer Controlling a Virtual Airplane, Lullatone: Bringing DIY Instruments to the Kids, and Void Cube, The Rubik’s Cube With No Center. A Chindogu Master Shows Off His Inventions Here’s a funny […]
Here’s a good project for Halloween. These electroluminescent butterfly wings use EL wire and some springs to keep the wire in the right shape when rounded into wings. Check out the link below for the detailed how-to on putting these together. via Invent Geek
Joel Bukiewicz crafts amazing knives in his little Brooklyn studio. Cool Hunting has a video going inside his workshop for an interesting look at how his fancy fancy knives are created.
This cool shield hack for the Arduino controller called the “ArduinoBoy” lets you interface it to any MIDI input to trigger sounds on a standard Gameboy. To get started, just use an existing Arduino protoshield, and scrap the breadboard for some custom circuitry and components outlined at the link below. ArduinoBoy, via Create Digital Music
