Our friends at BurdaStyle are on a talent search! It’s Sew Easy, the new television program to be broadcast nationally (in the United States) on Public Television, is looking for a BurdaStyle member to star in a 10 minute television spot instructing a national audience on a BurdaStyle sewing project! We are holding auditions via […]
Let’s Make Robots user adam “MiddleCreekMerchants” claflin built this Caterpillar BEAM bot, which manages to crawl along the ground and follow light without the need for a microcontroller.
r3becca of the Syndey hackerspace Robots and Dinosaurs designed these nifty Beco Blocks, which are 3d-printable blocks that you can snap together to make posable toys, hinges, or whatever.
Wouldn’t this gorgeous fabric flower bottle wrap from Between the Lines make a fabulous host gift added to a bottle of wine? (White wine, anyway, unless you used red cloth instead!) After you’re done drinking it, there’s a beautiful vase just waiting to be filled. More: Button-Up Bud Vase
Stumbling upon these photos was a strange moment for me. I’ve been playing Borderlands recently, and it had never occurred to me that the monster excavator from the video game might’ve been based on a real-world machine–a real-world machine which, just by eyeballing it, looks like it might actually be bigger than the video game version. Dark Roasted Blend has a good article with lots of deets on the monster machine.
It all starts with soldering. Over the years, we’ve been on something of a mission to teach soldering to all of our readers and we hope we’ve encouraged some of you to take the plunge. If not, now’s the time! It’s really not hard to do. It just takes a little practice and a few […]
Today is my half birthday – I am approximately 30.5 today and absolutely nobody cares. Even Wikipedia says “most half birthdays go unremarked.” I love half birthdays, but getting family members, significant others, friends, and even co-workers to acknowledge this day usually never happens. So this year I put about a half-hour’s worth of effort […]
