Homebrew — My Arduino-Equipped Still
At Corsair Artisan Distillery in Nashville, where I work, we came across a 1920s copper still that escaped Prohibition, and we were dying to put it to good use.
Year: 2012
Toy Inventor’s Notebook — Root Beer Pong Bot
When making prototypes, I often “kit bash” broken toys to harvest useful components like motors, gear trains, or radio-control transmitters and receivers. No need to reinvent the wheel — literally!
Recipe: Fresh Spring Rolls
I love spring rolls, I’ve made them three times this week! And they are so easy to make, just do the prep and you can make spring rolls all week. Kristin of Iowa Girl Eats gives us a wonderful step-by-step on fresh spring rolls with a great peanut dipping sauce.
Plush Tiny Houses
I am loving these sweet houses by Collected by Taska. They look really rad and double as a cozy floor pillow. Easily DIY-able right? Mmmmm, that gets me thinking…
North Paw and Heart Spark
Sensebridge is a maker of electronic kits geared toward personal hacking. It was started by a group of friends at the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge.
Gateways to the Soul — Eyeboard
One of my high school classmates is quadriplegic, and from meeting him and hearing about others with similar conditions, I learned that many people with disabilities can’t afford technologies that could enable them to communicate — especially in places like Honduras, where I live.
Shape Memory Polymer Demo
Shape-memory metals get a fair amount of attention, but shape memory polymers exist, too. In fact, heat-shrink tubing is a familiar example of a simple shape-memory effect in a polymer. This video uploaded by MIT researcher Vikas Srivastava back in 2009 is a more impressive demonstration of heat-induced shape recovery. The plastic material is tBA […]