Making Trouble — MENTORing Kids into Makers
I was quite surprised, and in many ways delighted, when DARPA requested proposals for a program called MENTOR that is aimed at addressing the shortfall of well-trained scientists and engineers in the U.S.
Year: 2012
Welcome — Experiment on Yourself
History is full of quirky tales of scientists who were first in line to try their own experiments. So are comic books, although super villains are more likely than superheroes to be self-experimenters. When the subject of scientific research becomes the researcher herself, that’s self-experimentation, a gray area in academic science that continues to find strong interest among amateurs.
New Wearable Electronics Platform – FLORA
I’m really excited about this new sewable Arduino compatible board called the FLORA.
How-To: Chevron Decorated Mitten Cookies
I don’t hold out much hope that I’ll ever be able to decorate perfect cookies with royal icing. But, if I ever give it a try, I want to make chevron patterned mitten cookies like Ashleigh from Bee in Our Bonnet. Follow the link for her full how-to! [Via One Pretty Thing] More: How-To: Granny […]
How-To: UP House Pincushion
This pincushion inspired by the movie UP from Megan at Radmegan in Words and Pictures is definitely the most charming thing that I’ve seen on a craft blog all week. (Get it? The pins are the balloons!) Head over to her site to see how to make one of your own.
Detecting Dirty Dishes with OpenCV
What happens in a shared space like a hackerspace, where you could have as many as fifty people passing through the communal kitchen in a given day? All those cups start to pile up quickly, I’m sure. Not one to let things get out of hand, London Hackspace member Tom created a solution to combat the problem. True to hackerspace form, he combined different open source technologies to alert the members in the space when a dish has been left in the sink for more than a few minutes.
New in the Maker Shed: Digit Shield
Need a simple, low cost way to display digits using your Arduino? Look no further than the Digit Shield now available in the Maker Shed! This easy to assemble shield uses a bright green 4 digit, 7 segment display to give you the data you need.
