Free Fonts from SMeltery
How About Orange points out these free fonts from SMeltery: Help yourself to some crazy free fonts from SMeltery. Left to right: ALusine, TRottoir, GEronto Bis.
Year: 2009
Twin Cities Maker – hacker space proposal for Minneapolis/St. Paul
Are you a maker living in the Twin Cities? Paul Sobczak is putting out a call for area hackers and makers to collaborate on creating a local hacker space. On January 6th I launched Twin Cities Maker, a website dedicated to realizing a high-tech maker shop in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The goal of the […]
Vanishing point robot guidance
I came across this video today of a iRobot create robot autonomously navigating a hallway using a standard laptop webcam. The guidance software centers the robot on the perceived vanishing point, which can be picked up from visual cues like wall and floor lines, allowing the robot to cruise in a direct path down the […]
alt.CES – Wrap-up
This year, for the annual gadget Bacchanal known as CES (the Consumer Electronics Show), we did something a little different — we took a MAKEcation! From the sidelines, we covered a few things that weren’t being covered, and some things through a uniquely MAKE lens. Here’s our wrap-up. If you saw tech, at the actual […]
Sci-Fi Cross Stitch Chart
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr Pool: Even-Star has uploaded a handy cross-stitch chart for Sci-Fi fans who’d like to whip up a sampler bearing that famous quote from The Day the Earth Stood Still: “Klaatu Barada Nicto!”
Fetch: reality game show with kids
Marcy Gunther is the producer of Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, a reality game show featuring a Host Dog and six real life kids as contestants. Ruff always seems to have something going wrong in the doghouse, and he has the kids help him learn about how to solve the problem with science and engineering. Have […]
Cold storage – hard drive edition
Youtube user petesteg has a great cabin fever project. It is an interesting/stupid/noble experiment for the winter months: put a hard drive in a plastic bag, put some rocks on it to hold it down at the bottom of your ice rink, and make a video of it throughout the winter. When the thaw comes […]
