iPhone controlled minivan
Built for the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge the “Spirit of Berlin” is already a complex marvel of modern technology. Add to the already tech laden minivan an iPhone remote and you’ve got yourself one heck of an RC.
Month: October 2009
Open source sourcing
This is a really cool idea, an open source project dedicated to the idea of tracking, documenting, and mapping where all of the components for our everyday goods come from. It’s supply chain transparency. [Thanks, Laura Cochrane!] SourceMap – Visualizing Supply Chains
Big Bad Wolf Dog Costume
Halloween is clearly not just for humans. Down Under Dog Designs has some amazingly adorable dog costumes in their Etsy shop. My favorite is the Big Bad Wolf costume, custom-made to fit your dog’s exact measurements, whether your pooch be big like the one pictured above or little like the ones below.
Using sonar to save power
Here’s a neat idea: using the standard microphone and speakers that are built into most recent laptops, researchers from Northwestern and University of Michigan have developed a sonar system to detect when a user is near the computer.
Remote controlled shrieking spectre
This video by YouTuber electricunicycle, while dark, shows off a pretty sweet haunt prop he made by attaching a frame, fabric, and lighting to an electric wheelchair base he adapted for radio control.
NYC Papercraft show
Slash: Paper Under the Knife (warning: autoplay video) is the NYC Museum of Arts and Design’s third major exhibition, and if it’s anywhere near the quality of Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting or Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, it should be fantastic. One of my favorite book artists, Brian Dettmer, is involved, as well as many many […]
Ken Wallich’s Rok-Bak chair
MAKE reader Ken Wallich built a couple of versions (one shown above) of Larry Cotton’s Rok-Bak chair project from MAKE, Volume 19 and shared them with us. The Rok-Bak is an amazingly comfortable chair that’s easy to make and is built from a single sheet of plywood. Here’s what Ken had to say about the […]