Here’s an absolutely brilliant use of Sugru – an air-drying silicone clay. The inventors have created an Instructable showing how to make a digital camera fairly indestructable for kids. Check out the abuse this thing takes with nary a scratch: Brilliant! I’m considering doing this to all my electronics now.
If you’ve ever walked along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan during the holiday season, no doubt you’ve seen the incredible animatronic store displays in the windows of stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman. In this excellent video, Cool Hunting interviews Lou Nasti, the animatronic mastermind behind many of these displays. Lou is the owner […]
I used to cover my schoolbooks in brown paper bags, and then throughout the course of the year, I would draw and put stickers all over them. They looked cool, but decidedly messy, with all those incongruous stickers living on a single surface. So I think this art installation, “The Salon at Sundown,” is interesting. […]
Have you ever tried a DIY project only to have it turn out completely different….in a good way? That seems to be what happened to The 3 R’s when they attempted a Design*Sponge tutorial and ended up with this dynamic paper starburst pendant lamp.
I’m in love with this confetti wrapping paper idea from Monica of 3 @ 12. It’s so simple and fun, you’ll want to use it on every gift you give! More: How-To: Space Invaders Woven Gift Topper How-To: Date Stamp Wrapping Paper Beautiful Recycled Wrapping Ideas How-To: Wine Cork Gift Wrapping
Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo have published initial trial results of a novel fluorescent fiber sensor for long-term in vivo continuous glucose monitoring.
Kids and cheap RC cars is a bad mix. In reality kids cannot control these things – so they end up slamming into things, and keep pressing “forward” while the poor vehicle is facing a wall.
With the purpose of preparing you for some nifty programming tricks in the next episode, in this episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics Frits Lyneborg is showing you how to make a cheap RC car stop before it hits an object.
Links related to this weeks episode:
AXE230:
http://www.techsupplies.co.uk/epages/Store.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Store.TechSupplies/Products/AXE230
Maxboticx:
http://www.maxbotix.com/
How to make a robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/start
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