How-To: Wall Circle Decor
Norikos from Mid Century Modern created this fun, retro-inspired wall decor using a handful of inner embroidery hoops. See how she pulled it all together over on her blog. [via Apartment Therapy]
Month: January 2010
Upgrading a sewing machine
Micah Dowty was frustrated with how poorly his sewing machine performed at slow speed, so he decided a sewing machine retrofit was in order.
Confusing Casio keyboard connections clarified
When recently asked to help make sense of an unintuitive keybed design (from a Casio CTK-510) – I quickly recalled my own frustrated attempts to repurpose a similar assembly. Though I never did fully ‘get’ the logic of that key matrix, I was really just surprised there were no example analysis to be found on […]
How-To: Vegan Marshmallows
Randy Sarafan made these vegan, kosher marshmallows which sound just delicious. I’d like to try using these with Katie Goodman’s chocolate dipped technique. More: Homemade Chocolate-Dipped Marshmallows
Floating spherical robots dance in space
I just had a major “the future has arrived” moment when I saw this video, taken aboard the ISS, of three spherical robots doing precision formation flying in zero-g. Note that the video embedded above is clearly time-lapsed–they’re not actually moving that fast. Here’s another video (with inevitable Strauss accompaniment) that shows two of the bots orbiting each other at actual speed. They maneuver using compressed carbon dioxide. It’s all part of MIT’s SPHERES project. [via BotJunkie]
Mario Sweater Vest Pattern
This Mario sweater vest from Happy Seamstress nerdy in a very, very cool way. After an outpouring of comments and requests for a pattern, she’s sharing the design in PDF.
Arduino sketch programs its peers
George wrote up an Arduino sketch that can detect and program other Arduinos connected through serial. He demonstrates the functionality above by writing a sort of serial-synchronized version of the well-known “Blink” sketch – It is an implementation of the STK500 protocol within an Arduino sketch. STK500 is used by avrdude and the Arduino IDE […]
