Wooden combination lock
Master crafter Matthias Wandel (famous for his homebrew pipe organ) made this clever wooden combination lock to demonstrate how combination locks actually work.
Year: 2010
Arduino-powered mood meter
The Arduino powered mood meter monitors an IRC channel and display the current “mood” of the maker. I bet a lot of opur readers already have all the necessary components to make this project. All you need is an Arduino, a servo, and some tape. Check out the link for the Ruby & Arduino source code.
Alt.CES: D-Link announces Boxee Box, now in Dali-esque form-factor
One of the CES hardware announcements that looks interesting to us is D-Link’s Boxee Box, a media player built around the open/closed source Boxee application (Boxee is a “fork” of the open source XBMC media center software, with some closed, proprietary code bolted on). The Boxee Box will play Adobe Flash 10.1, H.264 (MKV, MOV), […]
Edible Lasers
A friend of mine claimed you can make a laser from a gin & tonic, and so I had to find out more. It turns out that not only can you make a very poor laser using ethyl alcohol, you can also make one from Jello! Well, not the actual Jello like you’d find in […]
Flashback: Felt Needlebook
This month’s theme on Craftzine is Make Space for Crafting, focused on tips and techniques to organize and maximize your craft space, which brings to mind Susan Beal’s quick and clever Felt Needlebook project from the pages of CRAFT Volume 06. Susan teaches you how to transform wool felt, contrasting fabric, and a snap set […]
Whoa! Keanu supports FIRST
Keanu Reeves doing a public service announcement for FIRST robotics. Wait a minute, should Neo be a spokesperson for robots/AI? [via Robots Dreams] FIRST
Touch-free input interface using a single camera
Here’s a cool project out of the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory: a touch-free, in-air typing interface for mobile devices. Using a custom-built parallel image processing board, they are able to track objects in 3d using a single camera.
