Maker Shed weekly wrap-up
We added a lot of new products in the Maker Shed this week, and more are on the way.
Year: 2009
Reflective Lace
Elena Corchero uses reflective materials to bring style to cycling safety. I particularly like the reflective scarf and reflective socks. [via designboom] More: Solar Hand Fan by Elena Corchero
How-To: Create Faux Porcelain Pottery
P.S. I Made This shares a brilliant transformation of old vases, bottles and cans to faux porcelain pottery with the help of a little puffy paint and spray paint. [via @thingswemake on Twitter]
Monome tweet reader
Man, what don’t monomes do? Robert Böhnke puts the popular open source controller to work as a Twitter display. Related:Monome’s 64 (video) fingers
How To: DIY photo reflector
Jared from InventGeek begins a series of photo gear projects with his recipe for a 40″ pop-up reflector – So photography is not only a hobby of mine, but also more or less absolute necessity for what I do here on invent geek. That being said I have always been appalled at the high prices […]
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.
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
