Year: 2010

Featured Maker:  Nicholas and Felice

Featured Maker: Nicholas and Felice

We hit independent Oregonian jewelers Nicholas and Felice’s Pi Pendant and Pi Earrings for Pi Day this last Sunday, but, as you can see from these pics, they’ve got cool handmade jewelry for geeks of all flavors. If you’re a chemist, for instance, you might appreciate their Atomic Symbol for Silver Necklace, shown above, either as jewelry or as a gorgeous (and attractively labeled) silver specimen for your elements collection.

Open Heart LED Hoodie

Flickr user imakefunthings used two of my Instructables to construct this adorable soft circuit hoodie with a snap-on blinky heart. He used a LilyPad Arduino and Open Heart Kit. More: Open Heart brooch TV-B-Gone Hoodie and Zipper Switch CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101 CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino Bike Patch LilyPad Arduino POV Wristband Touch Sensitive […]

Cajun Crawler: If Theo Jansen designed a Segway

This Segway-style transportation device uses famed kinetic artist Theo Jansen’s style of bug-like locomtion. I think the rider appears to surf on another creature, perhaps a crayfish? Cajun Crawler [via @EMSL] More: Theo Jansen papercraft walker Theo Jansen-inspired Arduino walker Interview with Theo Jansen… Reader mail: Theo Jansen signs MAKE! Lego Segway needs only NXT […]