Month: June 2009

How-To: Portable tallbike

How-To: Portable tallbike

So you’ve just made a tallbike from two frames, and you have a great time riding it around your neighborhood, but what happens when you want to take it farther away than your pedals can bring you? Instructables user sprocketscientist made a tutorial for a tallbike that comes apart for easy travel. More tallbikes: 18 […]

In the Maker Shed: Trip Glasses

In the Maker Shed: Trip Glasses

Hack your Brain with the Trip Glasses in the Maker Shed! Get comfortable, put on the glasses and headphones, close your eyes (the LEDs are bright!), and flick the power switch. Enjoy the hallucinations as you drift into deep meditation, ponder your inner world, and then come out after the 14-minute program feeling fabulous. In […]

Needlework brings together programmers, crafters

Needlework brings together programmers, crafters

Nice story about the Open Source Embroidery exhibition and movement over on Wired.com: The movement brings together knitters, embroiderers and quilters who see parallels between the way they create their crafts and how open source software creators share their ideas. At the BildMuseet (art museum) at UmeÃ¥ University in Sweden, an exhibition — also called […]