Reuse Glass Bottles As Watering Globes For Your Plants
RadMegan shares this great tip and how-to for reusing glass soda bottles as watering globes so your plants won’t get thirsty. Brilliant!
Year: 2011
Making the Perfect Set of Spoons for Percussion
Redditor zimian’s friend had trouble finding the perfect set of spoons to play. Not only did they need to sound good but they also needed to stand up to the abuse they’d receive during a performance. Zimian’s uncle helped them create a custom set of spoons and they documented the process, which took about six […]
Motorola Atrix Teardown
The newly released Motorola Atrix is the fastest Android smartphone to date. With its blazingly fast Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, generous memory, and innovative accessories, the Atrix is shaping up to be one heck of a mobile. Receiving a 9 out of 10 repairability score, the folks at iFixIt.com say, “This is also the most-repairable smartphone we’ve ever taken apart!” Let’s take a look, shall we?
Robot Hummingbird Nano Flying Vehicle
AeroVironment, a DARPA contractor in California (Monrovia and Simi Valley), showed off this “nano hummingbird” at the AAAS National Meeting earlier in this month in DC. Both exciting and terrifying. I like the mention of a full-size aircraft possibly using this technology. Nano Hummingbird
Is a Wikipedia Editor on a Mission to Delete Hackerspaces?
There was a disturbing exchange on the HacDC mailing list that I thought I should share here. As one contributor to the conversation characterized it, an editor on Wikipedia seems to be acting as a “one man cleaning service” of content. Among his many suggested deletions on Wikipedia are a number of hackerspaces, including HacDC. […]
Fig and Feta Phyllo Pockets
If you’re looking for a tasty easy snack to make, try your hand at making these fig and feta phyllo pockets by Jeromina of paper, plate, and plane. Look for Jeromina’s Travel Crafty Toronto feature to appear later this week on the site!
Hackerspace Happenings
TX/RX Labs Hack-B-Que Series What’s a Hack-B-Q? Think free B-B-Q with the added bonus of getting to share knowledge with TXRX Members who have expertise in exciting DIY technology projects. And that‚Äôs just for starters: There are tons of exciting projects in progress and members with expertise in chemistry, electrical engineering, biology, physics, programming, mechanical […]
