Jonathan Johns, a coworker of ours over at O’Reilly Media and a frequent volunteer at Maker Faires, sent us a great little mending-in-the-wild story that we think everyone will enjoy. My son, Christian, and his two roommates were on spring break in Arizona. As they were climbing up and around the hills, Christian’s cargo shorts […]
Loic Royer wrote in to share his omniscient alarm clock project, Lolo’s Alarm Clock. Based around an Arduino, the clock attempts to wake you up at the best possible time based on your sleep patterns. To use it, you set a range of time that you would like to wake during, and it uses an […]
This cereal box marble run from Made by Joel is brilliant. See how to make one from just one cereal box over on his blog. [via Swiss Miss]
Helmut Smits is an artist based in The Netherlands. His site is full of multidisciplinary goodies and is well worth a look-see, but this rainbow windshield paint smudge really made me smile.
If you’re taking a road trip with kids this summer and need an inexpensive activity to keep them busy, check out this awesome bubble wrap travel game from Ohdeedoh. When you’re traveling, kids can pop the bubbles as they spot each of the items on the sheet. If your child is too young to have […]
The photography enthusiast in your life will likely love this camera lens coffee mug from Photojojo. It’s equipped with a lens-cap lid (omg), rubber-grip focus and zoom rings (o…m…g), and an auto-focus switch that actually switches (OMG)! It’s so realistic, you might have to use post-its just to remind yourself which is your mug and […]
Makers Local 256 member ratmandu (Justin Richards) built this 3D camera rig out of two Powershot A480s. One of the cameras is mounted upside down in order to get the two lenses closer to each other, and ratmandu’s custom code automatically flips the image back around. So see the effect, check out the second photo […]
