Our maker this week is Carol Reiley a surgical roboticist at Intuitive Surgical and the founder of Tinker Belle Labs. Carol’s on the cover of the current issue of MAKE, Volume 29, and is the co-author of two how-to projects in this issue.
Louisville’s hackerspace LVL1 is working on a home automation setup for the space, and they call it MOTHER. Using open-source home automation software called HOLOS, the capabilities include: * Monitoring of LVL1 Space Occupancy & Zone Occupancy * Measuring of “Hacktivity Levels” of each Zone * Monitoring of individual member occupancy * INSTANT WOMP MODE! […]
Anyone who thinks that paperclips can’t be fashionable has clearly never seen this paperclip heart earrings tutorial from Stephanie at Henry Happened! Depending on your mood, you can either stick with a simple heart outline or you can go all out with fun zigzag wrap pattern. [Via Dollar Store Crafts]
Neat idea from NY architect John Locke, who designed this slot-together plywood shelf unit to hang over the standard public telephone kiosk without fasteners or other alterations to the existing public property. The phone, if present, can still be used normally. So far, John has tested two prototypes, and in both cases passers-by were confused […]
Several months ago, I found packs of awesome red/white and green/white clothes line rope at the dollar store. I grabbed them, thinking I’d used them in some kind of Christmas craft project. I fiddled with a few gift topper options and didn’t have much luck, so I stuck them in my craft-supplies-to-experiment-with-later drawer. Thanks to […]
Here’s a tutorial from Open Music Labs on piezo transducers.
hre There was no shortage of Nerf guns and other toy weapons in Simon Jansen’s geek-filled office, but none of them impressed Simon, so like any good maker would do, he decided to build a better Nerf gun himself. His coworker Lester had brought in the Nerf Maverick, and though he could load multiple darts, […]
