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SF Makers, this looks like it’s going to be a GREAT dorkbot! BOCA (Bar of Contemporary Art), 7:30pm Wednesday – 11 October 2006. Here are the details from our pal Karen… – “October’s dorkbot is about pointing out the demise of the 2D desktop metaphor that has inundated anything and every thing computer-related in the […]
Squidly1 made these really nice hand painted trick or treat canvas bags for his/her neice and nephew – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter […]
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is offering up $500 to the best pumpkin with FSM related art carved in to it… If you plan on entering their contest, you can also enter ours with the same pumpkin too… [via] – Link. Related: Flying Spaghetti Monster Pumpkin contest 2006 – Link. Enter the MAKE & […]
Here’s an older Halloween project, but still fun to check out. It’s a giant robot costume made from thrown out junk, Chaintool writes “I spent a week raiding laundry mats trashcans in search of empty bottles gathering about 60 of assorted shapes and sizes. I also found two pairs of crutches (for stilts), and a […]
Mod god Ben Heck has a great how-to on adding an analog joystick to a PSP, he writes – “History is littered with game systems using far-too-stubby of controller sticks. From the Intellivision’s “disc of doom,” to Coleco’s “shaft of stiffness” (quiet, you!), and even now, in this high-tech age, the Sony PSP’s “sliding nub […]
Our friends at Design News have a new “Gadget Freak” how-to, this one is for Halloween, a lightning strobe! – “When the local church needed storm effects for a skit, sound man Dick Neubert found the thunder on the Internet and added “lightning” with a photoflash strobe. He used an uncommitted output from the mixing […]
Max added more tech to his DIY hovercraft and made a Halloween version, the one is controlled via Bluetooth! The video is fun, Max is really in to it… – Link. Related: DIY Hovercraft… – Link. Hoverwing – Hovercraft / Hoverplane kit – Link. DIY Hovercraft with 4 PC fans @ 22V! – Link. Homemade […]
