I used some ShapeLock the other day to fix my washing machine but Alexey from Russia used some to make this robotic arm and controller! Each piece was hand crafted out of ShapeLock by hand using hot water and a hairdryer. The electronics consist of an Arduino variant, servos, and some potentiometers for the controller.
If you’re looking to freak out some friends, check out this fun tutorial from Instructables user, seamster. Make some creepy eyes to put on an unsuspecting sleeping person. . . . Also great for wearing yourself, so you can sleep virtually undetected during meetings, church services, boring dates, job interviews, funerals, weddings, and so forth.
Joey Daoud, the producer of Bots High, says: Bots High is a funny and inspiring documentary that follows three teams of high school robotics geeks who build and battle their way to a national robotics competition in Miami. Funny, smart, and inspiring, these kids navigate high school, adolescence, and first love while reducing enemy bots […]
Rich Decibels created a tutorial for designing and laser cutting a project enclosure. He covers everything from designing the circuit boards to visualizing the project in SketchUp, exporting the panels to Inkscape and then lasering the enclosure.
Last week Laura posted a cake decorated to look like a bunch of asparagus. Well, here is a pizza box decorated to look like a cake! Of course, you could always fill the box with asparagus…if you wanted to. [via slice.seriouseats]
Part of a series called “Predictive Dreams” by Japanese ceramicist Katsuyo Aoki. Like Paul Overton said: “Canโt wait until NoahScalin gets a look at these.”
We’ve visited the Houston Museum of Natural Science several times this summer, and one of the biggest hits with the kids has been the enormous, gorgeous geodes on display. I love the idea of making our own “geodes” at home, so this crystal egg geode project from Jim “Figgy” Noonan for Marthat Stewart is at […]
