James Dyson Award winner Christine Outram was at World Maker Faire showing off her winning Copenhagen Wheel design. The self-contained power-wheel captures and stores energy released when braking and cycling and stores it for when a rider could use a little assist. The wheel is controlled via a mobile phone. The Copenhagen Wheel
Enter your soft circuit project on Instructables for a chance to win LilyPad Arduino and Fashioning Technology gear/supplies. Deadline is October 11! Unlike traditional circuits on rigid circuit boards, soft circuits are flexible and are ideal for building into soft mediums like fabric or paper. For this contest, make an Instructable showing how you made […]
And we’re back with our fifteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. paulbo shared How-To: Build an official BBC Dalek, ca 1973: We spent a relaxing Saturday a few weeks ago putting together a remote control Dalek using stuff out of […]
Baby bibs are essentials as all moms know and I am loving the new Liberty of London baby bib kits ($35) now available at Purl Soho. To make them absorbent they are backed with soft organic cotton terry. Each kit contains enough materials to make four bibs and there are four different color patterns to […]
Don’t you hate it when you are trying to perform an electronic piece, and find that your dot matrix printer controller has broken?
Get ready to be teleported to another planet, one where everything is knitted and freakin’ adorable. CRAFT friend Anna Hrachovec is having her first solo show, Greetings from Mochimochi, featuring her amazing fiber creations at gallery hanahou in NYC, opening October 7. Above are some preview pics, start getting excited! In her first solo show, […]
A Seattle family exposed to the virulent penny floor meme has contracted a more expensive (and therefore probably less contagious) mutant strain that metabolizes nickels instead of pennies. I do like the different color effect this achieves, but by my math (and depending on how much space you leave between the coins) penny flooring costs between $2.50 and $3.00 per square foot, whereas nickel flooring costs four times as much ($10-$12). I did not bother to compute costs for quarter-, dime- (ouch), or Sacagawea dollar-flooring, on the assumption that no one would ever go there. But if they do, please, nobody tell me about it.
