Home Cooked Felt Food
Abbey Hendrickson from Aesthetic Outburst cooked up a lot of neat looking felt food for her daughter. What a great mom!
Year: 2008
HOW TO – USB Geiger counter
Sylvain sent over these instructions for buiding a USB-able radiation detector – The geiger counter is a pretty simple device to detect radiations. Many forms of radiations from radio elements (alpha, beta, gamma) can be detected but it is more sensitive to beta and gamma radiations. The Geiger-Muller tube is a simple device, it’s a […]
Making Austin Weird: Viking Road Boat
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! If Nordic travelers from the 9th century suddenly found themselves in Austin, Texas, Matt Norris’ creation is what they might build: You can read more about […]
First Lego League Needs Judges
From our robotics friends in Dallas: Would you be interested in being a judge for a middle school robotics competition? The FIRST Lego League (FLL) Championship will be in Dallas, January 31st. For more information about (FLL), check out our web site. It’s a one-day event, and we are currently looking for 24 judges. Judging […]
John Cerney murals
John Cerney’s portfolio of giant cut out murals via NOTCOT.
Fake gas engine for RC cars
Francesco writes in – In the latest issue of the Japanese RC Magazine I discovered a custom device developed to provide to radio controlled electric cars a sound similar to the gas engines roar. The system has been created by a reader of the magazine and looks like a gas exhaust. The sound is created […]
Sew a Simple Bike Tool Roll
Use some scrap cotton canvas to create a simple, useful bike tool roll.