Diane points us to this awesome tutorial for making your own pair of spy sunglasses, fitted with sneaky rearview mirrors from Criminal Crafts. And if you don’t have time to make them, you can pick up a pair in Criminal Crafts Makers Market shop.
Pattie over at I Love to Create shares this quick and simple tutorial for creating a colorful mirror frame using spools of thread. It could be a fun craft room project! [via Creative Jewish Mom]
I love Abraham Neddermann’s Dice Creator’s Blog, full of his experiments with gaming dice. His most recent creation is a lovely hollow twenty-sider he calls Larry Niven’s d20. Today’s post, can be described as a truly “Concept Die”, like the concept cars you see on many auto shows. It comes as a solution to “The […]
This mod toddler sailor dress from Happy Together has me wishing my daughter was still a tiny tot. The seersucker fabric screams summer, and the big buttons are perfection. Get the pattern and how-to over on Happy Together.
Gearbox’s smartphone-controlled ball looks quite cool, offers much potential for creative game ideas – So basically how HTC/Android/Apple make smart phones, we make smart toys. Our first smart toy is a robotic ball that you can move by tilting your phone in the direction you want the ball to roll. We are then leveraging the […]
Okie from LeafLabs got down with some experimental signal processing using Leaf’s speedy Maple board and a custom shield – Real-time audio processing is an example of an application where Maple really shines in comparison to Arduino. Maple has 12-bit ADCs with sample rates up to 1MSPS and PWM fast enough to clear ~11.8 bits […]
Just when you thought Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots couldn’t get any cooler, makers Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh go ahead and add a bunch of servos, a custom controller board, and some fancy sensor-laden wireless watches from TI to allow you to control your robot remotely. As an entry to the Texas Instruments Co-op Design Challenge, the souped-up game uses sensor readings from a pair of Chronos watches worn by each opponent to control their respective robot.
