Bazaar Bizarre Maker Faire Bay Area Lineup
Hear ye, hear ye! Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco has announced their lineup for the upcoming Maker Faire Bay Area next month – take a look and get ready for some great crafters!
Month: April 2011
How-To: Origami Bunny Box
Fold up a sweet bunny box for your Easter treasures with this tutorial from Jacky Chan at Origami Spirit. [via How About Orange]
Lego Quad Flexpicker Can Sort 48 Bricks Per Minute
Shep’s quad flexpicker packs 6 NXT microcontroller bricks, 22 motors and servos, and 26 sensors and muxes, and takes the form of four delta robots grabbing bricks from a conveyor. The grippers are pneumatic and are controlled via IR signals. So sweet! This system uses four parallel robots which are fed using two conveyor belts. […]
How-To: DIY Bird Feeder
With spring in full swing, it’s a perfect time to tackle a simple DIY project that will make the birds in your yard very happy. Karen of Sew Many Ways shows you how to make a simple bird feeder with everyday household items.
Air Pollution Detecting Shirts Featured on CNN
Anderson Cooper 360° featured Warning Signs, a project by NYU ITP students Nien Lam and Sue Ngo. These t-shirts, which are decorated with either a heart or lungs, change color when an elevated level of carbon monoxide is detected. Full details about the project can be found on Nien’s blog. Isn’t it great to see […]
NASA Make Challenge Webcast – Tuesday 4/19 11am PT/ 2pm ET
We’re hosting an impromptu webcast for the NASA Make Challenge next Tuesday! Dale Dougherty hosts: The NASA Make Challenge is an invitation for makers to participate in the exploration of space and give students an opportunity to build an experimental kit that can be flown on a future space flight. These experiments will be based […]
Hackable Conference Badge Boasts a Nixie Tube
Jeffrey Gough created 210 interactive, hackable badges for the TROOPERS IT security conference, featuring nixie tubes built in! Each conference attendee starts on zero. As they unlock achievements at the con – like sending postcards to their families, meeting the speakers, unlocking the secret in the badge, attending my SMT soldering workshop, etc, attendees level-up. […]