Vertical Succulent Gardens
The Flora Grubb Gardens blog (San Francisco, CA) has a stunning archive of vertical succulent gardens they have helped to create. To me they resemble an airplane view of some incredibly lush, almost alien, landscape.
Month: April 2010
Building a pulse counter on the cheap
Josh of imsolidstate needed to reverse engineer a stepper motor on a linear actuator that he was repairing, so he built this 9-digit pulse counter to keep track of how the motor was being controlled.
Maker Faire: Interview with Raygun Gothic Rocketship Crew
Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest DIY festival, is right around the corner, taking place at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on May 22nd and 23rd. One of the biggest new projects coming to the Faire this year is the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, pictured above and hand-crafted by a large and dedicated crew. We sent […]
Maker Faire: SolarPump Electric Charging Station interview
There is no end to the awesome innovations that will be on display at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest DIY festival, taking place at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on May 22nd and 23rd. One of the new green energy projects to be on display (and in use!) is Austin-based Sol Design […]
How-To: BBQ with Uncle Pappy
One of my students, Brian Bernhard, made this really awesome tutorial video as “Uncle Pappy,” the slightly demented but good-natured clown, showing you how to set up your BBQ grill for some delicious warm-weather culinary delights. He’s also written up an Instructable to guide you through the process! I agree with his assessment of the […]
Make: Robot Build, making wheels from “coasters”
One of the things we’ve loved about the Make: Robot Build is the innovative ways in which people have approached the CD media build material. We’ve mentioned this already, but I think this is so sweet, the way Steve Joiner used a CD spindle to create a cutting jig and then cut a series of […]
How-To: Repot an Orchid
I love orchids. They’re a wonderful way to bring blooms and greenery indoors and they’re not as hard to raise as people seem to think — you just need consistency and the right window. They also need to be repotted once they start climbing out of their pots. Here’s how! (This tutorial is for an […]
