I love these whimsical tie embroidery patterns from Mollie of Wild Olive. They are perfect for Father’s Day, and could even be stitched on paper to create a really special Father’s Day card. Download the free patterns over on her blog.
Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics @ WIRED Magazine… For 25 years, the field of robotics has been bedeviled by a fundamental problem: If a robot is to move through the world, it needs to be able to create a map of its environment and understand its place within it. Roboticists have developed […]
Mark Crosbie’s Street View Car is packed with goodies, including a NXT brick, a dGPS sensor from Dexter Indistries, a NXTBee module, some cheap “spy cams” for imaging, and Mindstorms and Power Functions motors to run the thing. It all started when was playing with the dGPS sensor from Dexter Industries, and realised that if […]
What a simple and pretty design! Olgajazzy shares a detailed tutorial to knit up this cable necklace. You don’t even need to know how to follow a cable pattern – the design is ingeniously constructed from two flat strips. It closes with a button, so you can also wrap it around your wrist a couple […]
Thingiverse user EverydayInventors provides this worthy addition to the amusing warning label genre, for those “when you know it’s not a good idea, but you’ve gotta do it anyway” situations.
My bedside table is always stacked with books I’m reading, have read or am planning to read. Why not add one more that provides a glow by which I can actually … read? Steve Hoefer of Grathio Labs shows you how to convert a hardcover book into a rad reading light.
This video from Al Jazeera shows off some of the improvised technology being developed in support of the rebel forces in Libya. Among the wares is a repurposed Power Wheels toy outfitted with a machine gun. [via /.]
