14-year-old blogger and LEGO fan Joey Kelly of Stayton, OR lucked into a pressure sensor from Dexter Industries, and wrote up a detailed report. The dPressure is a very interesting sensor. It has two nozzles: the first on can sense pressure in both PSI (Pounds per Square Inch), and kPa (Kilopascals). The second nozzle can […]
By Jessica Wilson This project makes for a great baby gift and you don’t even need to be extra handy with a sewing machine to make it!
Here’s one of my favorite notes ever. It’s from a Lucy Leith, about her experience at Maker Faire, which she attended last year with her dad, Andy. My name is Lucy Leith, and I am a 13-year-old maker. I heard about Maker Faire through MAKE magazine, and thought that it would be a cool thing […]
I guess if you were wearing these, putting your foot in your mouth wouldn’t be a social faux pas …. [via Design for Mankind]
Alicia Gibb (NYCResistor and Bug Labs) is doing research on the use of the LilyPad Arduino in response to this call for Feminism in HCI out out by Shaowen Bardzell (Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing) and Elizabeth F. Churchill (Yahoo! Research), which will culminate in a special issue of Interacting with Computers . […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a great guide to organizing your spices, whether you use a pinch of coriander here and there or cups of chili flakes at a time. They go over purchasing, decanting, and organizing the spices you use in your kitchen.
I designed a stand to support the gun and the distance sensor, Arduinos, and firing circuit. Using some 20mm >80/20 t-slot aluminum and connectors, I built this. It’s not really a tripod, but it started out that way, so that’s what I’m calling it.
