Via SkyNews: This is the £50,000 winner of a contest to find the world’s greenest invention – a solar-powered oven made from cardboard. The cooker took the FT Climate Change Challenge crown after beating 300 other creations, including a food additive which stops cows passing wind. The Kyoto Box oven – which costs just £3.50 […]
Here’s a super-simple set-up for transferring analog film to digital: A lens (or a macro lens, or a lens with extension rings) is inserted into the circular hole in the front. A negative holder made of two sheets of vinyl with spacers is at the opposite end. After the film is inserted, the box is […]
Mark posted this classic Devil’s Dictionary of a DIYer’s definition of tools on Dinosaurs and Robots: DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings objects across the room, denting the freshly-painted vertical stabilizer which you […]
With my Mousey the Junkbot project in MAKE and Solarbotics’ Herbie the Mousebot hogging the limelight, folks might forget or be unaware of the fact that the original LM386-based Herbie circuit was a line-follower, not a photovore (light-seeker). Peterman921’s MouserV2 is a two-time line-following champ. It uses the LM487 audio amp chip and two downward-looking […]
Enter the Cosa Verde and Modish Earth Day Giveaway for your chance at winning 45 items donated by 39 talented artists. From the site: Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd and to celebrate, I’ve teamed up with Liz over at the beautiful handmade & eco-friendly marketplace, Cosa Verde, to bring you a special […]
Amy Zimmer from Sebastopol, CA writes in: I would love to go to the maker faire in San Mateo–but crowds flip me out! Do you have any suggestions or must sees for navigating for a crafty mostly gift giver type crafter (and maybe her two girls, ages 10 and 14)? I think each of us […]
Learn how to make Totoro cream puffs in the tutorial by Anna the Red’s Bento Factory. [ via Boing Boing ]
