I’m super excited about the Jell-O mold competition happening tomorrow at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY. Creative plastic forming designers will create masterpieces from the colorful jiggly stuff, and I get to be one of the judges! It’s free to go and check out the artistry, and winners will be announced at 8pm. […]
Upon hearing about my most recent knee injury, MAKE (and CRAFT) contributor Andrew Lewis asked if I might consider “zorbing” (video) as an alternative mode of transportation. I had to look it up, and found out it’s a New Zealand-born “sport” of rolling down hills in a spherical plastic balloon, inflated with leaf blowers. It […]
If you are into Radio Control Models or robotics chances are that you have an old RC transmitter laying around. This article describes how to create a motion control module for your RC transmitter, that will allow you to control your model or robot by simply tilting the transmitter case. The tutorial includes schematics, instructions, […]
I love a good craft hunt, and a couple of days ago Twitter user @KYouell’s call for help sent us searching for a project. @craft Help! Searching for zipper cover for earbud wires. Google/my brain/bookmarks devoid of results but know I saw it. Any clues? After sharing Kath’s request with the rest of the CRAFT […]
The Slow Glow lamp, by NEXT architects for trendy Dutch design collective Droog, is a really simple, cool idea: The bulb is surrounded by a blob of a low-melting point oil (soya oil) that clarifies as the bulb melts it and thus causes the light to gradually brighten over the course of a couple hours as it is turned on. As you can see, it’s just a cork ring, a lamp kit with a tubular bulb, and a few bits of lab glass. But they want $790 US for it from their online store. Which, by the way, is one of those annoying pages that disables right-clicking. Gonna add this one to my personal re-make pile.
Mobile hacker Grant Skinner wires up a Nexus One to act as a controller for a slot-car racing track. Gotta love the rubber band petal simulator.
The lab-coated miscreants at Evil Mad Scientist Labs have added yet another Arduino-compatible board to the mix, this one, very bare-bones (while being fully shield-compatible). It’s called the Diavolino (little devil). Windell explains: We designed this primarily in response to local need in our San Francisco hacker community for low-cost boards for teaching. In many […]
