The space geek in me loves to see just about any space-themed craft, but this awesome needle felted launching space shuttle from Flickr user, OKA Diorama, is especially cool. Thanks, Moxie, for feeding my space craft addiction!
Courtney of St. Louis, Missouri’s Twisted Handmade takes “recycled/pre-loved/found” data wire and cable and artfully weaves and twists them into unique jewelry items. Twisted Sunshine Data Wire Bracelets Black and Green Hoop Earrings Cable Bracelets Weavy Data Wire Earrings Twisted Handmade is Courtney Chesley, aka Courtney Watson, who was born and raised in Bellevegas, IL, […]
Some of the newer DLSR cameras will shoot surprisingly good HD video. Put one on a RC helicopter and you’ve got one exciting toy that can that can take a professional quality shot at a fraction of the cost. Texas-based videographer, maker, and RC pilot Eric Austin has done just that by rigging a Canon 7D to a hobbyist RC helicopter. The resulting shots are amazing.
It’s the ultimate retro gaming meets personal hygiene mashup. These bars of soap shaped like classic game cartridges from Indiana maker Lesly Karpiuk will certainly increase the nostalgia points of your domicile’s lavatory.
I’ve been playing around with the for Arduino from the Maker Shed, and I realized that I needed a basic understanding of how the seven segment display works, in order to do anything interesting with it. When addressing the display from the sample Arduino sketch, I was pulling pre-formed characters from an array of hex values.
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Cellular automata are mathematical systems that can generate surprisingly complex patterns from very simple rules. Camilla Fox worked out a way to knit cellular automata patterns by using two colors of yarn. One of the two colors is brought to the front for each stitch according to […]
This clever clock kit from EMSL has an analog-style face, but no hands. Instead, kinda like a sundial, it has a “gnomon” that sticks up in the middle. Three rings of inward-pointing LEDs are positioned around the rim, each a different color and each at a different angle relative to the face. The blue ring is at the shallowest angle, and thus casts the longest shadow representing the “seconds” hand. The red ring is at the steepest angle and casts the shortest shadow to make the “hours” hand. The green ring, in the middle, is minutes. Check the video above, courtesy YouTube user amandachou, to see it in action.
The “Bulbdial” clock is available as a kit with four different case options, but the clear/black variety shown above is definitely my favorite because it shows off the cool retro-futurist logo on the circuit board. Here’s a time-lapse video of YouTuber jcorsaro building one from a kit.
