How-To: Door Reminder
Blair of Wise Craft shares her simple solution to forgetting daily details as you head out the door. This door reminder is something we need in our house, too!
Month: January 2010
Night Lights projects actions five stories tall
Here’s the latest project from YesYesNo, this time in Auckland, NZ! It’s called Night Lights: In this installation YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the Auckland Ferry Building into an interactive playground. Our job was to create an installation that would go beyond merely projection on buildings […]
How-To: Quadrocopter based on Arduino
The Quaduino NG & AeroQuad RC projects both make use of Arduino boards to operate & stabilize 4-rotor helicopter (aka ‘quadrocopter’) designs. Looks like a fun one to have completed once Spring time rolls around.
Machining nested cubes
Bevan writes – An old machinist and carpenter trick is to make an object which is free to move but trapped permanently within another object. This site has pictures of two variations on that theme, with instructions on how to make one’s own using basic manual machine tools. Suggestions for other variations are included, and […]
Make a scroll saw from a sewing machine
Here’s an interesting, if possibly questionable idea. The folks over at Flowering Elbow converted a sewing machine into a scroll saw.
Fordson Snow Machine handles drifts with ease
Here’s a cool video demonstrating the Fordson Snow Machine, a 1920’s screw-propelled vehicle. I’m just glad it doesn’t snow that much where I live!
Robotagger
A cool use of GML by Golan Levin and Jeremy Ficca, called Robotagger: GML (Graffiti Markup Language) drawings from 000000book.com are converted into DXF via a small Processing utility. Motion paths for a robot arm are planned from this DXF using Rhino and MasterCam. The ABB 4400 series arm is wielding a 2″ Montana Hardcore […]
