Disco Bike Helmet
Safety first! I mean, that is all well and good but my motto is dancing first. Now bikers can have both with this DIY disco helmet tutorial from Natalina on Instructables. Gotta love when form meets function….and disco.
Month: April 2012
“Breakout” Game Controlled with Hand Gestures
ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang created a game called Hand Breaking Bricks. Rather than use a standard interface for their game, they decided to take on the challenge of using gestural control.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Hurley Winkler
When I found this 5,4,3,2,1 submission in my inbox, I lit up, and I am sure you will too after reading about Hurley Winkler. One goal she has for herself in 2012 is to start a blog, and I cannot encourage her enough. Plainly stated, the world needs more imaginary kittens, hot pink converse, and […]
Two Euros Machine Makes Donations Fun
Alex at Tinkerlog helped build this clever fundraising machine that takes a 2-Euro coin on a ride. In January Kolle Rebbe, a German agency, asked if I could help them with their project. The idea was to have an interactive ad poster to collect money for Misereor, a german relief organization. The campaign is named […]
How-To: Removable Lace Ruffle Shoe Refashion
If you like the idea of fancying up a pair of your shoes for a special occasion, but don’t want to permanently alter them, check out this tutorial from Christie at a Lemon Squeezy Home. “The lace adds such a feminine, flirty, and vintage look to the shoes!” I agree! More: How-To: Removable Shoe Ruffles […]
“Design For Hack” in Medicine
MacGyvering nurses and Legos are helping to create MEDIKits for better health care.
iPhone Geiger Counter Module
Rick Pannen designed the case for his iPhone-mountable Geiger counter in FreeCAD, milled it out of a solid block of polyoxymethylene (aka “acetal”), and loaded it with a custom-milled PCB and a surplus SI-29BG Russian Geiger-Müller tube from eBay. The circuit itself was designed by BroHogan of DIYGeigerCounter, and it interfaces with the phone through […]