How-To: Amigurumi Crocheted Gnome Pattern
Take a fun break from your holiday making with this amigurumi crocheted gnome pattern!
Month: December 2012
Tiny Reconfigurable Robot
This modular robot made up of <1cm components, can fit together with its cousins to form more complicated structures, building on a concept where proteins could one day do the same thing to form minuscule machines.
Hot Dog Coat
This impressive crochet pattern by Ravelry user KJ Kay keeps your dog warm and makes them look like a hot dog at the very same time.
December is Glass Month
With November behind us, we’re wrapping up our 2012 Year of Materials theme, this month, with a focus on glass. Glass, in the broadest sense of the term, does not imply any particular type of atomic or molecular composition, but rather a particular kind of ordering of atoms or molecules in space. Or rather, a lack thereof. In understanding this it is helpful to contrast glasses with crystals, in which atoms/molecules are arranged in repeating rows, columns, or other identifiable patterns, like cannonballs stacked on a courthouse lawn. Glasses, on the other hand, are more like dice poured haphazardly into a jar.
Folding a Giant Origami Bear
It took a team of four people seven hours to fold this giant, life-size origami bear.
BLE Shields in the Maker Shed: One-Tap Wireless Between Arduino and Cell Phones
Maker Shed is now carrying RedBearLab’s Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Shield. It’s an inexpensive, simple, and fun way to get Arduino talking to an iPhone, iPad, or even some Macs… and probably a few Android devices as well. True to its name, BLE is low power, and it’s also easy. Check out the walkthrough in the second half of this post: with a few clicks (or taps) I got my iPad and Arduino talking the universal language of blinkenlights!
The Scarf of Hope
Colectivo Desvela have created “The Scarf of Hope,” a one kilometer from individual textile pieces representing the thousands of missing people in Peru.
