Year: 2008

Button-Ring-of-the-Month-Club

If you love bright, fun jewelry you may want to check out WHIMSYLove’s Button-Ring-of-the-Month-Club! For $55 you’ll enjoy six months of accessory-filled mail. Sounds dreamy to me! Around the 1st of each month, for the next 6 consecutive months, you’ll receive a vintage button ring packaged inside an adorable little paper box–ready for gift giving […]

How-To Tuesday: Make a Beetlebot

How-To Tuesday: Make a Beetlebot

Photography by Jérôme Demers Ultra-simple bugbot navigates obstacles with feelers and switches. By Jérôme Demers The Beetlebot is a very simple little robot that avoids obstacles on the floor without using any silicon chip — not even an op-amp, and certainly nothing programmable. Two motors propel the bugbot forward, and when one of its feelers […]

Remake: Scraper Bikes

A story in Christian Science Monitor features Oakland, CA teenagers who are remaking ordinary bicycles and turning them into something colorful and cool. His name is Tyrone Stevenson, though most know him by his nickname, “Baby Champ.” He is, everyone agrees, the Scraper Bike King. He wants to change the rough, violent world that he […]