Spinning RGB LED Ball II
Laserpointerforums member FireMyLaser built this most excellent Spinning RGB LED Ball II, using a bit of junk from his scrap pile and lots of ingenuity.
Month: April 2010
Cellular Automaton Tea Cozy
Over at Make: Online, George Hart is rocking Math Monday with this knitted cellular automaton tea cozy, perfect for having John Conway over for an afternoon refreshment!
Make: Robot Build project submissions
Becky’s preliminary robot build. Note the use of a sewing bobbin as an idler wheel. We’re absolutely thrilled with the response we’ve gotten to the Make: Robot Build! The participation on the Forums, Flickr, and on contestants’ personal project blogs has been so inspiring. We’ve heard from a lot of people that this project inspired […]
7 things I’ve learned while building a CoasterBot
At last count, 625 makers have decided to create a bot for our awesome Robot Build, and I’m one of them! My concept is a bristlebot built with four toothbrushes and a mini CD. I bought some wee vibration motors, one for each brush, and right now, I’m trying to figure out a bunch of […]
The Search for the Best ANZAC Biscuit Recipe
Yesterday was ANZAC day, which is the Australia and New Zealand equivalent of our Memorial Day. (ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps.) ANZAC biscuits are a classic cookie that myth associates with World War I (they’re still getting over Gallipoli, and rightly so). My husband is Australian, so of course I wanted […]
Chair suggests recycling without actually doing so
That’s perhaps a bit unfair, as the PET from which designocrat Marcel Wanders’ prototype “Sparkle” chair is made may well come at least partly from recycled sources, for all I know. What I should say, really, is that the chair suggests direct recycling without actually doing so. It looks like it’s made from actual bottle parts, even though it isn’t. Which is a rather strange kind of eco-marketing, IMHO. Still, I like it as a purely aesthetic object. Is it because I’ve been programmed to desire bottled water, and thus respond favorably to an object that mimics its form even in a totally irrational way?
Apples Napoleon from Luxirare
The enviable Luxirare — killer clothes and fine cuisine — shares these wonderful photos from making Apple Napoleon (swoon). Luxirare writes: Prepare everything before hand. I eat apple napoleon A LOT so I always take one day out of the week to prepare my phyllo dough and sliced apples. I take them out whenever I […]
