How-To: LEDs Inside Sea Urchins
These LED sea urchins would make great party decor or even night lights! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories shows us how to wire up this super-simple (two parts!) circuit. More: Limpet Shell Electronics
Year: 2010
CoasterBot experimentation vids
I love the extent to which people are… er… thinking outside the bot in pursuing ideas beyond the standard layered cake approach to CDbots. In the first vid above, YouTube member eschulma shows a folding three-CD design using one full-size CD, two mini-CDs, and two attachment points, to create a folding CD assembly. Fascinated to […]
Spoon Garden Markers
I’ve seen spoon jewelry and napkin rings, but these spoon garden markers are so charming! I love the hand-stamped lettering and the mixture of spoon shapes. Who would have thought that the spoon’s curve would flatten so nicely as to make a perfect place for words! (I must admit a giggle though when I saw […]
Ana Kraš Lamps
I am thoroughly in love with the simple forms and retro style of Serbian designer Ana Kraš and her beautiful lamps. Her handmade Bonbon series attires steel wire frames with colorful knit yarns, while the M Lamp remains naked, waiting for you to dress it up in a garment lampshade. (The M Lamp was inspired […]
Impressive laser-cut Mars rover model…er, kinda
This elaborate laser-cut plywood “Spirit” model is one of many cool designs available from WoodMarvels.com. They sell PDF plans, EPS files, and parts kits. Caveat: This image, and pretty much every image I can find on their website, is a computer generated rendering. I’m sure their models go together in the real world just fine, but personally, I’d kinda like to see some photos that prove it. [Thanks, Rachel!]
How-To: Garden to Go
By Jessica Wilson I don’t know if you’ve heard or not, but my mister and I are hitting the road at the end of the month and we will be leaving our wee garden behind for good. I’m quite attached to the garden — it has provided us with oodles of fresh greens, herbs, fruit […]
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: DIY Multiple Voltage Bench PSU by krusty, 55-250 with WeightShifter by skazi, Breadboarding SMDs by lightsink, HeatSync Labs 4/15 meeting by JohnKit, and iBall Prototype 1 by Drew Mithi.