HostessWithTheMostess is one of my favorite websites for party inspirations. This “Berry Sweet” centerpiece made from flowers and gems mounted to a grapewood branch is colorful, modern, and interesting. Just like you!
Frits Stam developed this patch of grass with embedded conductive fibers and fiber optics. I think it’d go well in a Wonderland-type interactive art installation. [via Fashioning Technology]
Josh from imsolidstate built this circuit to answer the age old question,
how much electric current does a truck really use?
Every other week, CRAFT’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Craft: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Ed Troxell, photo intern Last month I traveled to the Big Apple, New York City. This was my first time to the metropolis and I know it won’t […]
Still, every little bit helps, and this copper-based catalyst recently developed by Elisabeth Bouwman and co-workers at Leiden University in the Netherlands represents a vast improvement over previous atmospheric CO2-fixing processes. Most of these are poisoned by oxygen, which means that you can’t just pump air into the reactor without removing the oxygen first. Bouwman’s catalyst, however, reacts with CO2 but not oxygen, producing oxalate, which is a useful feedstock for the manufacture of methyl glycolate and other organic compounds. And while Bouwman’s material is not a “true” catalyst in that it actually forms a compound with CO2 and has to be regenerated in a second reaction, the regeneration step can be done electrochemically with remarkably little energy.
Wow, look what Matt Mets found in the MAKE Flickr pool! Micah Dowty was frustrated with how poorly his sewing machine performed at slow speed, so he decided a sewing machine retrofit was in order. After adding a speed sensor, modding the foot pedal, and adding a beefier DC motor, he finally has the tool […]
Another interesting sound project which made its public debut at Handmade Music Austin – the SimSam sample rate cruncher designed by Dann Green of 4ms Pedals. Unveiled at the beginner’s class at Handmade Music Austin #4 (Jan 2010), the SimSam is a “sample-rate cruncher” that’s glitchy as all get-out, but only costs about $8 in […]
