Month: November 2010

“Take on the Machine” concludes

http://vimby.com/swf/media/VideoPlayerAS3.swf Who will win? I can’t take the suspense! In this, the final episode of “Take on the Machine”, Mitch Altman announces the winning hackerspace. Once again, I have to give huge props to Scion, Vimby and Mitch for smartly going after the hackerspace community, a group of influential and brilliant folks who are at […]

bildr’s twixie: Twitter meets Nixie

bildr’s twixie: Twitter meets Nixie

The orange glow is enough to drive a man mad from obsessing over it – but what to do with it? I wanted something that would be for bildr and, if possible, connect to the internet – doesn’t everything need to? So, I decided to do what any self-obsorbed site-creator would do: I was going to make a nixie display that showed the amount of twitter followers bildr had, and then recheck every 30 seconds.

Water scooter for disabled child

Water scooter for disabled child

Shawnmelito on Instructables writes: THE PROBLEM: When the family goes swimming, either in a pool or at the lake, my daughter, who has Cerebral Palsy, would either just have to float around in a life jacket, or be carried around by an adult. Either way she had no independence. Also, because she is so skinny […]