Happy Lady Ada Day!
Lady Ada Day celebrates the life of Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron credited with being the world’s first computer programmer.
Month: October 2012
Making Drones in Tijuana
I was invited to speak at Tijuana Innovadora, a regional conference/expo. Mark Hatch of TechShop, Jason Short, an industrial designer by day and Drone programmer by night, as well as David Cuartielles of the Arduino team also came to speak on an open source hardware panel.
MAKE Asks: Hardware Hacks
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
A Cardboard Bike?
Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni says he ready to mass-produce a 20-pound bicycle made of cardboard that’s waterproof and even fireproof. There are no metal parts. The chain is actually a car’s timing belt and the tires are made from reconstituted rubber. The cost? Twenty bucks.
Pumpkin PCB Kit
This simple but clever kit lets you build a pumpkin-shaped flickering light.
Knitting and Furniture Design
Designer Robert Grimshaw developed these unique knit furniture pieces by working with a local knitting circle! [via Design Milk]
DIY Skull Cookie Cutters
I love this brilliantly simple hack for making a DIY skull cookie cutter. My son and I have been doing a lot of baking together, so I suspect this will be happening in our kitchen this afternoon! (Via Babble.)
