Our pals at Oomlout are looking for some open dev love for their robotic arm project. They write on their blog: Its time to take open source hardware to the people who can make it really awesome, you. Part of what makes open source software so powerful is the, varied skill sets of the people […]
Via the Parallax site comes this project to build an automated wooden-nickel printing machine that’s sort of an homage to coin-op penny arcade machines. Nickel-O-Matic Robot
Ball chain is useful stuff, and even moreso when you find out there’s a way to connect offshoots from the middle of another strand! Sean Ragan has a helpful guide to the different types of connections possible and used them to create a number of hanging plant suspension devices.
There are a lot of services and datasets that provide IP address geolocation, allowing you to detect a web user’s city of origin based on their incoming IP. Unfortunately, most of these services cost quite a bit of money, impose limits on how many lookups you can do over a period of time, or aren’t […]
I love that our crafty contributors Susan Beal and Diane Gilleland got crafty over the weekend and had their own terrariumania by making making mini-terrariums from Jenny’s Tuesday CRAFT Project: Mason Jar Terrarium. Speaking of which, don’t forget to pick up this great book, The New Terrarium we recently reviewed here on CRAFT.
Have you seen the great work of Amy Smith? She operates D-lab nestled beneath the infinite corridor at MIT. Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal. […]
Crochet Patches By Andrea Dunlap A few years ago when I was working on a documentary in Peru, I only had a few pairs of nice hiking socks with me and one of them got a hole. I didn’t have a sewing needle or thread, but I did have a set of crochet hooks and […]
