It was probably a bad idea to read food blogs while waiting for dinner. It was an even worse idea to read this post from Heather’s Dish about caramelized peanut butter banana quesadillas. I’m now officially starving!
Now in its seventh year, the BIF Summit has earned it reputation as “one of the top 7 places to watch great minds in action” (according to Mashable). The summit provides participants with the space to be curious and crazy, get inspired, and collide with unusual collaborators. A shoe designer learns innovation processes from a car designer. A police officer teaches a business guru about transforming industries.
Data-Crunching Program Guides Santa Cruz Police Before a Crime @ NYTimes.com… …the presence of the police officers in the garage that Friday afternoon in July was anything but ordinary: They were directed to the parking structure by a computer program that had predicted that car burglaries were especially likely there that day. The program is […]
Yesterday I posted about this lovely paint-by-number mural painted in a child’s nursery. Ohdeedoh has a great interview with another paint-by-number mural artist, Curtis Robertson. He covered most of a room with an intricate paint-by-number design for his niece’s son’s bedroom. The in-progress pictures show just how much detail work goes in to a project […]
A weekly craft fair roundup and a call for vendors.
To make an already-overlong story short, this stuff actually works pretty well. And considering what a ridiculous idea upholstery spray paint is, in the first place, it works almost *astoundingly* well.
Andrew Terranova from Let’s Make Robots mods the Spazzi Robot project from MAKE 27 to use less expensive solenoids. He calls it the EconoSpazzi. Learn to build Spazzi on Make: Projects: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Spazzi-A-Solenoid-Powered-Dancebot/1074/1 More info: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/econospazzi-robot.html
