Etsy and NASA have joined forces to launch the Space Craft Contest. Etsy artists can submit works inspired by the NASA Space Program. (And if you don’t have an Etsy shop, you can still enter. You just need to sign up for an Etsy account.) The Grand Prize winner will receive a $500 Etsy shopping […]
The latest from Herman Miller and possible your craft room at just $399, the SAYL chair by Yves Behar is an example in how the testing and design process really works. With more than 70 prototypes made, Behar was determined to see if a chair could be possible without a frame, allowing the user to […]
$90 buys a 9V/250mA panel from Dexter Industries, supplying enough juice to power a NXT brick and a single servo. dSolar Systems allow you to power your Lego Mindstorms NXT robot using nothing but the sun! This 9V solar power system is compatible with Lego Mindstorms NXT creations and includes everything you need to get […]
Wired and others are reporting that Benoît Mandelbrot, the mathematician and father of fractal geometry, has passed away, just shy of his 86th birthday. On GeekDad, Matt Blum writes: I had the rare and amazing privilege of hearing Mandelbrot speak when he came to visit my high school about 20 years ago. Even at my […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool: 23N! (Flickr user zeni666) made this TV Bug noise instrument using a CRT TV, SN76477 noise chip, and 3 phototransistors. (Presumably) it works by feeding the output of the sound chip into the TV, where the resulting video signal then gets looped back into the circuit using the light-sensitive phototransistors.
PT @ Make: Online spotted these blood fountains, not made for Halloween, but a good time to share them! Mathieu writes: This Bloody Red Water Fountain was located in Unirii Boulevard, Bucharest, Romania, This was a “promotion” somehow for Hemophilia awareness.
If you haven’t checked them out already, Zaggo‘s mini documentaries on the 3D printing phenomenon are a must see. [Via the MakerBot Blog.]
