Craig Smith of South Milwaukee, WI, wrote in to share the progress he’s made on his homebrew astronomy rig: Since my moon photo was featured almost a year ago, I have a better telescope, a homemade tracking motor and some ok planetary photos. Saturn is currently on the other side of the sun, but earlier […]
Here’s a nice homebrew 3d globe, by Russian maker riko.
Made from cardboard, styrofoam, and aluminum tape. Another eBay listing by the same chappy who brought us that duct tape AT-AT. [via Boing bada Boing]
Nice photos! Reminds me of how things work at my house, too. Pin cushion with components and Arduino with sewing pins by Hannah Perner-Wilson on Flickr.
The fishing community on the English tidal island of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, has found a wonderful channel of employment for their once seaworthy vessels. By simply turning them upside down and adding doors they are upcycled into sheds! So cool I wish they were converted into little studios instead. Photo by Kevin Wakelam. [via […]
I’ve been interested in collecting woods for a long time. The International Wood Collectors Society is the premier collectors organization, and they promulgate a “standard sample block” measuring 6″ x 3″ x 1/2″. The smaller IWCS-size samples are much cheaper than these wooden “books” offered by Worlds Wood Library, but there’s no denying the elegance of this ideas as a display. The common name is cut into the book’s “spine,” and the latin binomial into its “cover.”
CRAFT friend Leah Buechley, creator of the LilyPad Arduino and head of the High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab, just published a really interesting paper: LilyPad in the Wild: How Hardwareʼs Long Tail is Supporting New Engineering and Design Communities. Gender plays a big role in the study, and the findings tend to […]
