Yesterday I posted our Kitchen Gifts Holiday Gift Guide featuring Renu light switches from Leviton. Well, today you have the chance to win your very own custom Renu light switch palette to spice up your own kitchen, craft studio, etc. We’re looking to give 20 lucky winners their choice of a switch, combo switch, dimmer, […]
Today’s kit giveaway of the Learn to Solder Skill Badge may not be as glorious as some of the other items but we’re giving you 25 of them! In addition, we are throwing in a Variable Temperature Soldering Iron so you and 24 friends can learn to solder together. It’s the perfect giveaway for hackerspaces, schools, or people that really like things that blink (a $79.99 total value.) Here is the review from the issue:
I find that, especially during the hustle and bustle of the holidays, this existential doily from Stitch Therapy rings pretty true. Brilliant!
The BeagleBoard BeagleBone has just arrived in the Maker Shed in limited quantities. It’s a low cost, high-expansion, hardware-hacker focused BeagleBoard for people that love embedded Linux systems. Basically a bare bones BeagleBoard, it can run all by itself or act as a USB or Ethernet connected expansion for your current computer or BeagleBoard.
If you need an inexpensive way to package baked goods or small gifts for the holidays, check out this tutorial from Melissa Esplin. She shows how you can take cardstock and fold and sew it together into a sweet little box. She also shows a few variations and ways to use it for gift wrap […]
Thursday, December 1st marks the beginning of the latest iteration of Roboexotica, an annual cocktail robotics gathering held since 1999. Roboexotica is the annual festival where scientists, researchers, computer experts and artists from all over the world build cocktail robots and discuss technological innovation, futurology and science fiction.Until recently, no attempts had been made to […]
Pamela Campagna and Thomas Scheiderbauer of L-able made these portraits from old family photographs using just nails and thread. [via colossal]
