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Jenny Hart, artist and founder of Sublime Stitching, will be giving an artist talk tonight in Austin at Domy Books, where her show Study Hall Drawings is currently on exhibit. These are drawings based on year-book photos of various students from my high school. I grew up and attended school in the same town throughout […]
On May 14-16, 2010, over 15,000 ham radio enthusiasts gathered for the annual Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio. From the moment I drove up behind the creator of APRS (GPS for ham radio) there was something radio-related to see. It was like ham radio’s Maker Faire. I’ve captured some of the highlights in this video. There […]
Jamie Nisbet spent a year living in Florence, Italy, and one of her favorite foods from the region is schiacciata bread. On her blog, she writes: It is a flat bread, whose name is derived from a verb meaning “crushed.” The bread is typically oiled and salted, but can be made into several different varieties […]
Check out the very cool repurposed dishware by foldedpigs. If you’re not into glazed-on cockroach illustrations on your dishes, perhaps you’d enjoy the spoon and fork Jolly Roger motif.
I love how this Mindstorms robot is able to emulate a real human gait rather than having the slow shuffle that most walking robots feature. Of course it is held up with strings, but it shows the potential of the (toy) technology. This video was created as part of our project in the Department of […]
There’s a great thing that happens, every so often, when people have access to machine tools: They go a little bit nuts. They’re bumping along one day, doing what they do, and some mundane object crosses them for the last time. This or that thing never works as well as it should, or breaks too easily, or gets misplaced once too often, and it occurs to them: Hey, I could fix that–and not just for myself, for today or for the next couple of weeks or months, but for the rest of my natural life and possibly those of my descendants for the foreseeable future of the species. And something like this solid 6061 aluminum Scotch tape dispenser from Henry Herndon is the result. The sea may be vast, our boats may be small and constantly buffeted by the gales of an indifferent universe ruled by a howling demon of entropy, but that Scotch-tape-dispenser-problem is fixed now, by God. On to the next thing.
I’ve been reading Cooking With My Kid with interest, because I’m trying to get better about involving my kids in meal making. I love her motivation to make these crustless quiche in cups. When I suggested we make Broccoli Quiche, my kid had no interested. When I suggested we make it in a cup he […]
