Year: 2009

HOW TO – Chocolate Bath Melts

Instructables user SoapyHollow writes: Bath melts are fruit or nut butter melts for soaking in the tub. The added ingredients will leave your skin soft, detoxified and smelling terrific. This particular batch I made for valentine’s presents, hence the chocolate scent and red foil wrap. You can scent them with any essential oil or fragrance, […]

An Exercise in Species Barcoding

An Exercise in Species Barcoding

Peter writes– Recently I’ve been looking at the International Barcode of Life project. The idea is take DNA samples from animals and plants to help identify known species and discover new ones. While other projects strive to identify the complete genome for a few species, such as humans, dogs, red flour beetles and others, the […]

TinkerKit: a physical computing toolkit for designers

TinkerKit: a physical computing toolkit for designers

Tinker.it is working on a new collection of prototyping components for Arduino hackers: TinkerKit is an Arduino-compatible physical computing prototyping toolkit aimed at design professionals. The interest in physical computing as an area in development within the creative industries has been increasing rapidly. In response to this Tinker.it! is developing the TinkerKit to introduce fast […]