Skull pillow
Katie made this rad cross stitch skull pillow, great work! More: Silver skull spoons Super skull roundupalooza Lovely 3D-printed skull Gorgeous little needle-felted skull Skull pedals
Year: 2010
New in the Maker Shed: SunMod kit
Add the SunMod kit to your remote control and you will never need to replace the batteries again! Just turn your remote over, place in the sun, and let the charging begin. Hack any AA or AAA powered device to make it solar powered. Please Note: Rechargeable NiMH batteries are required, and not included.
Take on the Machine continues with NYCR, part 2
The NYC Resistor cats continue to work on their “Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas” slot machine slash barbot that tweets! The rival hackerspaces will need all their nerdgenuity to top it. Apparently, Pumping Station: One is building a bicycle-powered ice-cream maker that makes glow-in-the-dark desserts? Oh yeah!
Max to The Moon
Last night, I stumbled upon what has quickly become one of my very favorite Tumblr blogs. Max to the Moon is the “official blog of Max’s Moon Mission.” Max is an “amateur astronaut” and Max to the Moon chronicles his fictional space adventure to the moon and back. While the blog first appealed to my […]
New video from O’Reilly Media on iPhone augmented reality programming
This video guides you through developing applications for the iPhone and iPad platforms that make use of the onboard sensors: the three-axis accelerometer, the magnetometer (digital compass), the gyroscope, the camera and the global positioning system. You’ll learn how to make use of these onboard sensors and combine them to build augmented reality applications. This will give you the background to building your own applications independently using the hottest location-aware technology yet for any mobile platforms.
Longreach rescue buoy launcher wins 2010 James Dyson Award
UNSW Industrial Design student Sam Adeloju’s Longreach Water Rescue System won this year’s James Dyson Award, surpassing the Minotaur Fire Nozzle System, Copenhagen Wheel, and Move-it cardboard hand cart for the £20,000 prize.
Whirlpool fountain
It’s called Charybdis, as in “between Scylla and.” Briton William Pye used a massive acrylic cylinder to give the appearance of a containerless volume of water. It’s installed at Seaham Hall, in Sunderland, England.