Yup. There it is. That stack of old magazines you’ve been saving to … hmmm, what was the plan again? Coffee table? Collage? DIY dollhouse? Cut and paste cookbook? Well, there’s really no shortage of what to do with printed paper goods, and Maria of PaperBling reminds us that upcycling paper is fun. All her […]
Polish Lego builder Paul “Sarial” Kmiec built this fantastic robotic arm using Technic Power Functions elements combined with an external pneumatic compressor! Just another weekend build – this is basically a late realization of an idea I had back when I was a kid. The goal was to build a model of an entire human […]
Last year, Dave Findlay built a simple Arduino-based iPod remote to make it easy to start and stop his music while in the car.
Upcycled accessories are fun and easy to make. Watch and learn how to make your own chain-link headband from a busted bicycle inner tube in this week’s CRAFT Video! I got this project idea from Britt McMaster, who showed us how to make a chain-link necklace from white leather over on her blog, cucumbersome.com. You […]
From the new archive search front page at PopSci.com:
We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It’s an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology’s incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
[via The Robot Group mailing list]
This week’s clever maker-entrepreneur award goes to Etsy seller Cleaner Science, who makes and sells these awesome soaps that look like petri dishes full of growing germs. They’re easy to make (I presume), inexpensive to buy, light enough to ship cheaply, and totally original. Home run! Bonus: some include glow-in-the-dark spots! [via Geekologie]
It’s hard to give Carnegie Mellon PhD student Chris Harrison’s Skinput a fair shake without automatically assuming it’s a variant of Pravan Mistry’s Sixth Sense project. Nevertheless, it does employ different tech: Mistry’s Sixth Sense is optical; Skinput uses a “novel, non-invasive, wearable bio-acoustic sensor” to track your gestures. We present Skinput, a technology that […]
