From the MAKE Flickr pool Feurig etched a well-planned fish-shaped circuit to hosts a slew of pink LEDs as scales. Great work – though it would be nice to see all those lovely copper traces exposed in the final product. A lot of work goes into designing circuitry and etching your own provides an excellent […]
You’ve heard of magnetic orientation in migrating birds, the theorized “sixth” sense that allows them to see the earth’s magnetic field using deposits of magnetite in their beaks. To see what this experience might be like for a human, you can build a north-sensing feedback device into a belt using some pager motors, an Arduino, […]
Nothing terribly clever here, but sometimes you’ve got to build your own tools before the real fun begins. I’ve been doing some mobile Arduino development and I got annoyed with carrying around a bulky coil of USB cable. I could buy a pre-made A-to-B gender changer, but not at 10pm on a Sunday, when I […]
Lilliputing reports on Sugar on a Stick, an easy way for you to try the XO Laptop’s user interface on any PC: The OLPC XO Laptop may have sparked the netbook revolution by showing it’s possible to create and mass produce a low cost but quite capable computer. The project provided the spark that led […]
The Forkable blog has a nice recipe/tutorial for making a hot toddy to sooth your sore throat and warm your cold body. Via Instructables.
The gals over at Sublime Stitching have put together a tutorial for creating this “I Love Your Guts” Valentine for that special someone in your life. The tutorial includes the embroidery pattern and text to make the card complete.
Today is Jules Verne’s birthday. Verne was born in Nantes, France on February 8, 1828 and died on March 24, 1905. Along with H.G. Wells, his work gave birth to the science fiction genre. One of the things Verne pioneered, and much of the sci-fi to follow has emulated, was writing about the fantastic upon […]
