At the TED conference last week, Gever Tulley gave a three-minute talk about his Tinkering School, a summer program that he’s created for kids. He’s created a comic-book version of his talk on tinkeringschool.com. Gever’s on to something with his comic-book format. He adds: The idea of converting a presentation to a comic book has […]
Also from Chung Da Lam, this cool, innovative ways of folding paper to create CD cases. While you’re on his site, also check out his wonderful papercraft projects on his Paper Art page. Chung Da Packaging Design
Vickie Howell has a free pattern on her site to make these baby lollipop leg woolies. Vickie writes: Knitted leg woolies are a great, Springtime alternative for baby to pair with rompers. A little extra warmth + still being able to see a little thigh chunk while kiddo is kick, kick, kicking= good stuff. They […]
Open source hardware club ships Gumstix-based handheld – huh, sort of a build to order BugLabs… An open source hacker community has launched an online store to sell home-made gizmos, including a GPS-equipped baseboard (pictured) for the Linux-ready Gumstix Verdex processor module. GizmoForYou builds custom gadgets according to members suggestions, and sells the open-spec devices […]
MAKE contributor Dhananjay V. Gadre wrote in with this cool project: I just completed a new project: a fire-free and fire-safe LED matchstick. To light this matchstick you strike it against a normal matchbox filled with neodymium magnets. The LED matchstick has an inductive sensor that detects the magnetic field as you strike the matchstick […]
I finally put together my Newton’s Reflecting Telescope Kit by Gakken. It was a lot of fun to build and it works great. This kit would be a perfect gift for anyone getting into astronomy. By the time I was finished, I had a really good understanding of how these types of telescopes work. A […]
Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of Fashioning Technology, will be hosting a soft circuit workshop in Los Angeles on February 22! The first half of the workshop will be an overview of different conductive textiles and threads available commercially as well as a demo of a variety of soft switches, sensors and controls. For the second part […]
