What’s in Your Garage?
We’re betting on solutions to big problems coming from innovative makers working in their basements, garages, and workshops.
Year: 2009
Plankton Evangelist
The eccentric saga of Russ George.
CRAFT Video: Color Changing LED Brooch
Sew up this little colorful brooch using a LilyPad tri-color LED and three small potentiometers for a customizable color wardrobe embellishment. No programming required! Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, or download the m4v video. Potentiometers are variable resistors. They change the amount of electricity that can pass through them based on the turning […]
Making Trouble — 5,000 Days? CO2 Targets and How Much Fossil Fuel We Can Burn
We need to commit to hard numbers of where we wish to go, and we need to consider carefully the cost of building infrastructure.
Made On Earth — Trailer (Re)Made
Inspired by post-Katrina New Orleans, New Yorker Paul Villinski created Emergency Response Studio (ERS), a FEMA-style trailer transformed into a fully functional, sustainably built mobile artist studio.
A Twitter-enabled toilet
Hacklab.to is at it again. This time around they’ve made a twittering toilet using an Arduino and an Adafruit ethernet interface. The toilet will post to Twitter with every flush. Seth Hardy, who came up with the idea, says: Everyone is making things that connect to Twitter, and the Arduino environment makes it easy to […]
How-To: Build a Bee House
Yes Mag shows you how easy it is to make a bee house with this tutorial and accompanying video. From the site: Mason bees are a common bee you will see flying around your home in spring and summer. They are native, non-social bees. They neither sting nor make honey. The mason bee is an […]