Pizza Food Flags of the World
Tiny Urban Kitchen posted a great overview and recipe collection of travels far in wide through… pizza! Via You Are a Wizard Harry
Year: 2010
Reader-contributed Gift Guide (and book giveaway)
We’re still looking to hear what’s on YOUR holiday list. Please leave your wish list for Cyber Santa in the Comments below. We’ll be choosing three user-contributions and giving out copies of our Ultimate Workshop and Tool Guide 2010.
Amazing Robot Fairisle Knitting
Elf518 on Etsy/Ravelry makes the most incredible robot/traditional fairisle knitting mashups! I love her color combos, and bow to her tenacity color work.
Neato Robotics XV-11 Tear-down
The latest in robotic vacuum cleaning is the XV-11 from Neato Robotics – and it features a scanning LIDAR laser range-finding module that is ripe for repurposing in other robots. Chris over at Sparkfun lovingly tore in to one and wrote up the results so far – the module has a simple serial port interface […]
Holiday Gift Guide: For the Kids
There seems to be a mini baby boom happening; instead of wedding season, there are now baby showers and birthday parties all year long! The good news is that there are cooler handmade and creative gifts for babies and kids around than ever before. Here are a few of the things that have caught my […]
Add graphics to your Kicad-designed PCB
Matthew Beckler of Wayne and Layne wrote in to share an image processing tool he wrote that helps expand the capabilities of open-source EDA suite Kicad. Looking to add some fancy graphics to the silkscreen on your next printed circuit board? If you’re using the totally awesome open source Kicad EDA suite, look no further! […]
Online dice collections
Shown above is a small sample of Justin Michell’s meticulously-documented dice collection over at Kevin Cook’s DiceCollector.com. Justin’s is one of six collections, besides Kevin’s own, hosted at the site, which makes for fascinating browsing. Most folks’ experience of dice is limited to the simple Platonic-solid dice, but of the first 20 integers, only 1-, 17- and 19-sided dice are not represented in Justin’s collection.
Disclosure: I got wind of Justin’s collection when he contacted me about putting my old design for an alphabet die up on Shapeways, which I did. His print in stainless steel is shown uppermost. I make two bucks for each one they print.
