Contacts case for small parts
Here’s something that never would have occurred to me — using old contact lens cases to hold and organize surface-mount and other tiny electronics parts. Small Parts Tray made from Contact Lens Cases
Year: 2009
Giant water tower cozy
Jenny @ CRAFT tips us off to this cool 10,000 gallon water tower cozy video: The project, which was conceived to bring awareness to the educational organization D&AD’s pencil award, used 32 MILES of Wool-Ease Thick & Quick yarn! For more information on the project, which took Robyn Love and 6 crocheters 3 weeks of […]
10,000 Gallon Water Tower Cozy
Lion Brand Yarns tips us off to this great video on YouTube: I just wanted to let you know that a video of the installation of artist Robyn Love’s crocheted 10,000 gallon water tower cozy is now available on YouTube: The project, which was conceived to bring awareness to the educational organization D&AD’s pencil award, […]
Spiffy face lift for an old toy…
Spiffy face lift for an old toy… Luis Fernando Espinal Ceballos of Colombia wanted to give his cousin’s son the slot track racing set he loved as a child. But the toy seemed unbearably old-fashioned. So Luis jazzed it up with a new electronic control system. He dumped the old battery box and replaced it […]
SQ01: A simple quadruped
This is a really cool little robotic quadruped based on a Picaxe 28X. Make sure to check out the last video where he demonstrates how it turns. I really like the sound it makes walking along the table. The plans started out as a hexapod with the same basic idea, but the servos I ordered […]
Light pollution through the eyes of Civil Twilight
Can you see the stars at night in your neighborhood? Maybe not, but the Civil Twilight Collective is working to raise awareness and encourage solutions to light pollution. Lunar Resonant street lighting is an interesting way of providing an appropriate amount of illumination to cityscapes. Photographer Christina Seely has been doing nightscapes of the brightest […]
SplatBot: Autonomous robotic bully
The Splatbot has 1 mission, and 1 mission only, hunt for objects and give them a good squirt! It’s fully autonomous and robot based on a Picaxe 28×1. I would expect an R/C version to be in toys stores in the near future. This is the Bot08M’s big brother and he’s a bully! Navigating with […]
