Mark Edelman from NorCalFTC shows the competition area for a yearly teen program in robotics. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, student teams used their engineering and technology skills to pit their creations against one another in the final tech challenge.
Kate from minieco made this spooky, cute Pacman garland as part of her kid-friendly Halloween decorating. If you want to make your own, you can download a PDF of the template on her site!
A Seattle organization called Xbot Robotics held a workshop where students built robots using MicroRAX girders and NXT microcontroller bricks. I love the top photo above with the mecanum wheels; all three were built by the students. The introductory lesson for how to build a four-wheel chassis included the purpose and structure of a chassis, […]
For Emily Roose’s Masters in Graphic Design thesis project, she created a series of cross-stitch samplers based on big news stories. I juxtaposed content that is extremely fast and ephemeral (breaking news stories) with a very slow and archival medium (cross stitch). I wanted to see how this transference of medium affects the message of […]
Amelia Harnas made these enigmatic portraits using a combination of embroidery and wine stains. These portraits are created either by using a wax resist (much like batiks) and repeated wine stains with embroidery as a reinforcing drawing over the original design or wine on paper with machine sewing. [via colossal]
Ian Fardoe made a velomobile for his bicycle that cost about £2,600 ($4,000) to build – far less than commercial velomobiles, which can cost twice that price.
File this away for your holiday cocktail parties. I imagine these stuffed fried olives could be dangerously addictive, but fortunately, I don’t care. Get the recipe over on bell’ alimento. [via April West on Pinterest]
