Electronic sunglasses
Designer Chris Mullin constructed these electronic sunglasses, which detect bright objects in your view and selectively darken them by turning on part of an LCD screen.
Year: 2010
Japanese saw handle puffs away sawdust
This nifty Puff Handle by Z-saw keeps your cutting line visible by applying a puff of air to the cutting site with every stroke. From Core77: As a part of our Hand-Eye Supply duties we test out new product. Yesterday we gave this intriguing Japanese Saw a tryout! It incorporates an internal piston system that […]
Chocolate Hanukkah Dreidels
When my pal Amy Wilson, a member of the Detroit Derby Girls, posted photos of her completed chocolate Hanukkah dreidels she made for practice this week, I demanded a photo of one spinning on the track (note the piece of parchment paper she placed on the track so that no one would skate over chocolate)! […]
How to keep your inventions from blowing up
Prolific maker Stephen Hobley has an interesting idea for protecting your wall-powered projects from self-destructing: add a lightbulb in series with them.
Loveduino, a heart-shaped Arduino board
Over at Make: Japan, Takumi Funada posted this lovely Arduino-compatible Loveduino board.
Denyse Schmidt’s All The Trimmings Stocking Pattern
Making Christmas stockings for my family was one of the big reasons I initially wanted to learn how to sew so many years ago. I did, eventually, make stockings for each of us after my first sewing class, but then I realized that I just want to make new ones every year. Cute patterns like […]
Bicycle Drawing Machine
Matt @ Make: Online points us to this awesome exercycle-powered drawing machine by Joseph L. Griffiths. Nice!
