When my husband and I were dating, I remember vividly the first time I visited his grandmother’s home in East Texas. Aside from having a lovely visit with her and his grandfather, she served some amazing homemade banana pudding. Thirteen years later, I still remember that banana pudding (what can I say, I’m a gal […]
Congratulations to Kat from Boynton Beach, FL, Shana from York, PA, and Amylyn from Ontario, Canada for each winning of copy of the book, Vampire Knits by Genevive Miller in our recent giveaway. Thanks to everyone who entered!
I’ve got to build one of these. I usually leave out gobs of food in a couple of bowls expecting my cat to exercise his free will, but this seems like so much more fun. Usually it’s the cat that’s playing the games. And who isn’t interested in Arduino, Android, and 3D printed parts? It’s like some perverse Internet-connected feline vending machine, but instead of some elaborate scheme involving payment gateways and QR codes, it relies on toxoplasmosis-induced mind control. Who’s the robot now?
Tony Lovell built this 900mm camera lens using £250 of surplus government optics, a custom-machined aluminum body, and lots of ingenuity.
So, are you ready? We’re not really ready. We’re in denial. And seeing that a lot of sites started running their holiday gift guides before the wicks on the Halloween pumpkins had even cooled, only made us want to dive deeper into denial. But don’t get us wrong, we’re not Scrooges or anything. We like […]
An interview with Jack Goodman by Mark Frauenfelder In this third and final piece of our wind cart series, we interview Jack Goodman, the man from Florida who shot a video of a cart he built to find out if a wind-powered vehicle could outrun a tailwind. Goodman’s video (which was posted by the Amateur […]
Robot builder Kelly designed this excellent AVR Treasure Chest, and used it to send his sons on a high-tech treasure hunt: When my boys were very young, I made a treasure chest from a cheap toolbox, placed an electronic lock in it (AT90S1200) and sent them on a treasure hunt, solving clues and ultimately opening […]
