HOW TO – Sky-High Rainbow Cake
Off the (Meat) Hook shows us how to make this hyper-colorful six-layer birthday cake with no-boil frosting. Fun!
Year: 2008
Robot legs shows degrees of flexibility
This humanoid soccer robot leg was built from foamboard and old servo motors. Check out the video to see the total flexibility of this simple creation. Studio469
How to: Joint boards without a jointer
Anyone who works enough with wood wants a jointer. What do you do if you need one, but don’t have one? Improvise! Check out this great instructable on joining wood without a jointer. A planer/jointer is not always available to the home woodworker who wants to do fine cabinetry. Look at the piece of cabinetry […]
Robots exhibit stressful states
These two videos of robotic projects by artist Michael Kontopoulos show examples of his work that feature machines with obvious flaws. “Machine that Tries to Draw Circles” is a machine that exhibits a chaotic attempt at drawing a circle by failing miserably. The other video of “Machines that Almost Fall Over” shows hammers programmed to […]
Hacking your car stereo
Unless you have a new car, you most likely don’t have an iPod input. You can usually just use a cassette adapter, but you can also open it up and just start messing around. If you want to crack it open, take a look at this web site first. It may save you some time […]
Bottle greenhouse adds sustainibility to harvesting
This “Bottle House” created by artist Jasmine Zimmerman is an open-roofed greenhouse made from hundreds of the plastic drink bottles that we use 70 million of everyday. The project will be exhibited in empty lots, rooftops, parks, and vacant buildings in order to spread the word about recycling and reporposing everyday objects in our environment. […]
Arduino Project Box
Steve Cooley sent in his Arduino Project Box. It has tons-o-prototyping goodness. Check out the link for a lot more information, pictures, and even a video of this cool project. [Thanks Steve] An arduino based prototyping tool and performance interface. Here’s the overall philosophy: A permanently attached set of digital and analog inputs and outputs […]