Month: May 2011

Quadrotor Formation Flying

The University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, famous for those crazy quadrotors that can fly through windows and hula hoops, has been working on getting groups of the robots to fly together in formation. Just like with a formation of fighter jets, there’s a leader robot in each squad along with several follower robots. The followers […]

The Kitchen-Table Industrialists

The Kitchen-Table Industrialists

The Kitchen-Table Industrialists @ NYTimes.com… A lot of familiar makers celebrated. A version of this article will appear in print on May 15, 2011, on page MM50 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Meet The Makers. If you lived in Detroit in 1961 and watched Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” at a drive-in, you might have […]

How-To: Dye Your Own Buttons

In every lot of buttons I score on eBay and in thrift stores, there are always plenty of random white plastic ones. Well, this tutorial from Rit Dye’s website opens up so many new possibilities! Who knew you could bathe them in dye and get such beautiful colors? (Via Bonkers About Buttons)