Software, meet hardware. The Netduino Plus from the Maker Shed is an open source electronics platform using the .NET Micro Framework. The board features a 32-bit microcontroller and a rich development environment, making it a perfect solution for engineers and hobbyists alike. The Netduino Plus includes all hardware features of regular Netduino along with MicroSD […]
As the temperatures dip down, warm up your ears with these four cute versions of ear warmers from Delia Creates that are featured over on Prudent Baby.
John Kestner made Tableau, a piece currently on display at the Saint Étienne International Design Biennale: Remember when we made a connection by handing someone a photo? As our social circle spreads across a wider geographic area, we look for ways to share experiences. Technology has reconnected us to some extent, but we fiddle with […]
If you’re considering giving a dude a tie this xmas, consider making it yourself! Michele Beschen shows you how to print and sew a classy tie over on Etsy. I’m not 100% sold on the “geek power” pattern on this one, but the tutorial for sewing the tie is rock solid.
This doily garland project from Candace of Sparkle Power for Smile and Wave is so fun, I could see myself making it for the holidays and leaving it up all year long.
The indubitably cool (though possibly non-ergo) gesture interface seen in the movie Minority Report as well as amazing real-world projects like Pranav Mistry’s Sixth Sense are mirrored in his Kinect hand detection experiment by Garratt Gallagher of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Pretty sweet, and you don’t even need cool cyber-gloves!
YouTuber srobbin identifies this as a “500kV switch opening up in the Nevada desert,” but provides very little detail otherwise. Still: Holy smoke. It arcs for a good six seconds, with a sight and a sound that, even on video, is pretty terrifying. In person…well, I’m not sure I can even begin to imagine what it would be like.
