Wow! I love these toilet-paper roll creatures from El Hada de Papel, a trilingual (!) blog about crafting with kids. These couldn’t be easier–assuming, of course, that you’re capable of drawing quirky owls, cats, dogs, or anything else with pointy ears. (Via Swiss Miss.)
Project White Star, those intrepid souls trying to fly a weather balloon across the Atlantic, built an excellent helical antenna to be featured as part of their next payload. (The one pictured above is not their final antenna, but one of the experimental ones.) After the scrub on the launch pad for flight attempt A, […]
I can’t wait to get my hands on a set of these new stamps coming out from the United States Postal Service – Pioneers of American Industrial Design. Many of the items featured are antiques and collectibles you might have in your own home. I’m particularly excited to see Gilbert Rohde’s, former design director for […]
Rob’s recent post over at Boing Boing drew my attention to Ren Ng’s startup, Lytra, which is developing a digital imaging technology that requires no moving parts to focus an image at any depth of field–even infinite. It’s called “light field” photography, and, besides eliminating failure-prone moving assemblies from cameras, it will let you refocus your pictures however you want, as many times as you want, after they’ve already been taken.
Black and white checkerboard floors are classic and you can create them without setting a single tile. I transformed my tile entry way with paint and you can too!
Growing edible plants on your fence, wall, or balcony is all the rage right now, and for many good reasons. The setup is attractive, the greens and/or herbs are inexpensive and yummy, and the idea is just cool! A friend recently sent me a link to this wonderful take on the wall garden; it uses […]
In this weeks edition of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Frits and Andrew are looking at an interesting home made project: An environmental homemade robot, with some interesting moves, plus it’s own oxygen, hydrogen tank hooked up to a fuel cell. Finally there is a tip from OddBot on how to use the reset button […]
