Make it Anywhere, Part 3: Mobile Lab Fixtures
Steve Roberts, the “high-tech nomad,” shows you how he built his mobile lab and makerspace.
Year: 2010
Eye Candy: Islamic Art Pattern Archive
Tilework detail at Hazrat-e Masumeh mosque in Qom, Iran. Photo taken by me. The Wade Photo Archive has a wonderful website of 4000 pattern images you can browse for design inspiration. Much of the work is copyrighted so you can’t exactly grab and go, but just looking through centuries of incredibly ornate patterns can really […]
IDSA theme this year “DIY: Threat or Opportunity?”
Interesting to see the IDSA (industrial designers conference) addressing DIY. Grace Bonny of Design*Sponge is set to give a keynote: From innovations in production techniques and materials, to copycats and retail sales, Grace will examine and evaluate both the upside and downside of the revived do-it-yourself movement in design. DIY design is both friend and […]
Throw an Etsy Craft Party on June 18th
Etsy Craft Party is a global initiative to energize local communities to celebrate and get making together in their home towns on June 18th, 2010 (which just happens to be Etsy’s birthday). Etsy is using the just launched platform Meetup Everywhere to throw a huge global party. You don’t have to be an Etsy member […]
Hollow spy nickel conceals Micro SD card
Brian Dereu and his family have a thriving cottage industry machining these pocket concealments from real currency and selling them online. I have one of their MicroNickels, shown above, and it may well be the coolest thing I have ever owned. It’s sized perfectly to conceal a Micro SD card, and when assembled it really is indistinguishable from a regular nickel. So, you know, just don’t lose it.
Lego NXT R/C boat
Our go-to guy for all things R/C, Fra Fondi, of Hobby Media/Xtreme RC Cars, sent us this video for an awesome Lego NXT-controlled boat. It has an NXT Brick MCU onboard and is controlled by a mobile phone via Bluetooth. It has a range of about 50 meters in clear line of sight. A few […]
Self-experimentation, unusually effective
A paper by Seth Roberts on how/why self experiments are so effective (PDF) via Quantified Self. Over 12 years, my self-experimentation found new and useful ways to improve sleep, mood, health, and weight. Why did it work so well? First, my position was unusual. I had the subject-matter knowledge of an insider, the freedom of […]