IC wallet from chess-case
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member lovro made clever use of a portable game board/case as an ESD safe wallet
Year: 2009
Giant-sized VU meters
Narwhalbot built a couple of monster VU meters for use at live shows, wall-mounting them at home between gigs – awesome, awesome.
Day planner clock erases itself
Il-Gu Cha‘s Trace of Time clock incorporates a whiteboard-esque erasable face and an eraser built into the hour hand – See a video of it in action here. [via Tinker.it]
Felt Gameboy iPhone pouch
Wrap your fancy new iPhone in this soft, luxurious felt Gameboy iPhone pouch found at etsy.com.
Dorkbot DC/HacDC meeting, Tuesday, July 7
Just a reminder that the first in a series of HacDC/Dorkbot DC co-presented events is happening this Tuesday — and we’ve added some presenters: Schedule for next meeting (Co-presented with HacDC) 7 July, 2009 7 PM – 8 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: HacDC (Room TBA) 1525 Newton St NW Washington DC 20010 Keith Sinzinger […]
Jessica’s “Field Studies”
Protozoan Flagellates from Jessica Field on Vimeo. MAKE subscriber Rob Cruickshank sent us a link to the site of Canadian artist Jessica Field. Jessica makes these wonderful, funky little robo-critters, some BEAMish, others more sophisticated, with computer-control. I like how she “programs” failures/shortcomings into her robot creations. (Wait, don’t most robots do that on their […]
R/C blimp prison break attempt
Francesco Fondi, of the Italian site Hobby Media, sent us a link to a story about Giulio B, an Italian drug trafficker jailed in Spain, who attempted a prison break using this small dirigible. The site’s in Italian, but I gather the R/C craft was supposed to fly into the prison, with the payload of […]