Solar charging station on a dog
The solar dog prototype charger from Erik Schiegg is a solar panel attached to a dog sweater. I’m not sure how efficient it is, but I could see this being handy.
Year: 2010
Wii Wand of Power watchdog circuit
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to get up to go do something, but didn’t want to leave a game for fear your system would go to sleep while you were away and you couldn’t use a software hack to nudge the system? Maker Todd Harrison had a similar issue and decided to build a device that closes a circuit every 25 seconds inside a Wiimote shaped candy tin.
Printable cross-link ellipse gears
Thiingiverse user natetrue created this printable version of user stickoutrock’s laser-cut cross-linked elliptical gear toy. Somebody post some video, please!
New York Delft
I have an obsession with graffiti. And dishes. And New York. New York Delft by lovegrove&repucci is making me very happy. These high art tablesettings are surpisingly affordable, at least when compared to other high art tablesettings! The classic tradition of Dutch Delft craftsmanship hits the streets of New York City. Presenting the ‘New York […]
In the Maker Shed: Absinthe & Flamethrowers
Written for reasonable risk takers and suburban dads who want to add more excitement to their lives, this daring combination of science, history, and DIY projects explains why danger is good for you and details the art of living dangerously.
The Art And Studio Space of Rebecca Ringquist
Embroidery artist, Iviva Olenick, of Were I So Besotted, shared her recap of the Connective Thread fiber art show at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The work of one of the artists she mentioned really caught my attention. Rebecca Ringquist creates gorgeous pieces combining hand embroidery and freehand machine embroidery and found stitched […]
MIT wins DARPA’s luftballoons challenge
A team from MIT has claimed the $40,000 grand prize in Darpa’s recent NAME social networking challenge. The prize went to the first team to successfully report the locations of 10 large red balloons positioned at random locations around the continental United States. MIT’s strategy involved the construction of an incentivized social network in which pieces of the reward were distributed along the entire “chain” connecting the network to a person reporting the location of a balloon: the actual reporter was awarded $2000, the person who invited the reporter was awarded $1000, the person who invited that person was awarded $500, and so on up the chain. I wonder if bail bondsmen could adopt a similar strategy to locate fugitives? [via The Computational Legal Studies Blog]
