Kiwi programmer and farmer John Hart of Lifeboat Farm has been experimenting with using his RepRap to produce mechanical pest control devices so he can leave off the chemical pesticides. Shown above, fused-filament butterfly decoys, spotted with a marker and mounted on stalks of plastic filament in the garden: The stalks are quite flexible so […]
Jenean Morrison shares pictures from a recent visit to Memphis, where she explored the stunning public art installation, “Quiltsurround” by Sculptor and University of Memphis professor, Greely Myatt. The large scale quilts hide the unsightly heating and air conditioning units on the side of City Hall and were made using soon-to-be-recycled street signs as quilt […]
One of our audio hardware contributors, David Cranor, is super-enthused about the Open Music Labs’ Audio Codec Shield.
Lish Dorset goes to the Michigan Girl Geek Dinner and spots this etextile Pac-Man cuff.
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Lorena and David of San Francisco decked out their baby Lino’s nursery ceiling with embroidery hoops filled with all different fabrics, hanging from the ceiling. They sprinkled in some extra special hoops with glow-in-the-dark “friendly ghost” night protectors that David silk-screened himself. I love this idea, because a baby is often laying on his back […]
The OpenROV team journeyed to Hall City Cave just outside of Wildwood, CA to test out their underwater rover and to gain some more information about the cave itself. Here is their preliminary robot on how the robot performed.
