Hen Jumpers
Little Hen Rescue is a U.K. hen-rescue organization. They are requesting that people make and send little hen jumpers for the residents that don’t have very many feathers, to keep them warm.
Month: August 2011
WikiHouse: Open Source Home Building
WikiHouse will be shared via a Creative Commons license for anyone to adapt and improve. A WikiHouse is fabricated from locally sourced plywood cut on a CNC mill from openly shared template files, and assembled with minimal skill by local people. [Via Ponoko]
Metal Shop Tips with Tubalcain
A retired machinist and shop teacher from Illinois captures a lifetime of metal working wisdom in YouTube tutorials.
Upcycled Doily Pendant Light
This upcycled pendant light is a really lovely way to use those vintage doilies you have passed down from your grandmother.
News From The Future: Laser Enriched Uranium – Cheaper, Better, Smaller And Portable?
…Scientists have long sought easier ways to make the costly material known as enriched uranium — the fuel of nuclear reactors and bombs, now produced only in giant industrial plants.
Lightpack, a Content-Driven Ambient Lighting System for Displays
Atarity from Izhevsk in the Russian Federation wrote in to share his project, Lightpack, a LED-managing board that plugs into a display and changes the RGB levels depending on what is displayed on the screen.
How-To: Know It All Bag That Shows Your Knitting Pattern
This brilliant bag from Kalani Craig for Knitty kind of blows my mind. It’s bag that uses LEDs and a Lilypad Arduino to display stitches of a knitting pattern. The video above explains it well, and shows how the different blinking LEDs stand for different types of stitches. Yep, this bag knows everything. It knows […]
