Note: This fun project is provided by Festo as part of their appearance for Maker Camp 2014. Watch a video of Festo’s Fin Gripper in action here. Make yourself a gripper that is based on a fish’s tailfin! There is a lot to be discovered in nature. We can learn quite a bit from plants and animals. Left and […]
Suppose you wanted to build electronic dice for a board game. Sure, you could use discrete components to build a clock circuit into a decade counter and BCD to 7-segment decoder, etc. Or you could write some random number generating code. That’s obvious and has been done before. But professional toy inventors have to be crazy clever and get the same effect, but for an insanely low, dirt-cheap cost. Can you do it?
This amazing ghost trap birthday cake was made by Shawna Morawski based on a felt sculpture by Steff Bomb.
BrushBots or BristleBots are a fun project for any age. But the bot’s not the focus of this project. The Habitat is.
Liberate a vintage movie camera by giving it a second life as a charming little handbag.
If you’re looking for a new crochet project to monkey around with while you hang out this summer, then this amigurumi monkey pattern from Knits For Life might just be an appropriate choice.
What do you get when you combine a 40 foot diameter geodesic dome with LED strips and acrylic panels? Apparently something really amazing, as seen in the videos below. This dome was set up at burning man, making for an interesting space where one can be enclosed in light or open to the environment if […]
