Nixie the Wearable Selfie Drone Delights Crowd at CES 2015
Moving from concept to reality, the small wristband drone dazzled the CES crowd and tech community.
Month: January 2015
Turning Your Plastic Computer Keyboard Into A Wooden One
New technology gets an old-fashioned makeover with this DIY wooden keyboard.
DIY Garden Boat Planter From Upcycled Pallets
Set sail for a fantastic gardening voyage in a handsome boat planter made from upcycled pallets and a few other materials with this thorough tutorial by Youtube user the recycler!
Kid Crafts: Ice Ornaments
Are you battling the cold snap? Here’s a great project to keep your little ones entertained in the freezing, snowy weather. Turn your yard into a sparkling winter wonderland with this cool ice ornaments tutorial!
Circular Knitic: An Open Hardware Knitting Machine
Artist duo Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet designed and built an open hardware automated knitting machine called Circular Knitic.
“Catman” Customized Cone Cat Collar
Apparently, your poor cat’s cone collar can also be a canvas for your creative expression!
A Ti-Powered Sous-Vide Cooker
If you thought microcontroller-enabled cooking was only for Arduinos, Trey German contacted me with his sous-vide cooker, built around a Texas Instruments MSP430F5529 USB LaunchPad. The code was derived from a pre-existing Arduino sketch from Adafruit. They’ve got a tutorial on this technique with an arduino here. The food that Trey cooked with it, a […]