Nickel-O-Matic printing robot
Via the Parallax site comes this project to build an automated wooden-nickel printing machine that’s sort of an homage to coin-op penny arcade machines. Nickel-O-Matic Robot
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Cardboard laptop case
UK designer Giles Miller makes these laptop cases (and a number of furniture pieces) from recycled cardboard. I love the way he’s altered the corrugations to create designs in the cardboard. Corrugated Cardboard Laptop Case
Credit card iPhone stand
Here’s a simple, flat stand for your iPhone, Touch, or other mobile media device, made from a cut-up office store bonus card. DIY compact iPhone stand More: Earbud cord manager Credit card guitar picks
IdeaBlob cultivates projects
Ideablob has a collection of projects that users of their system have submitted to a user response contest to win funding. Here is a quote from their About Us page: ideablob.com is where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and grow their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling […]
Wearable metadata
Patty Maes of the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab introduces what may be the must have gadget in the not so far future. The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector […]
NewsAlarm, net-connected fire alarm
Digital artist Jer Thorp writes: Holding a smoke alarm, battery installed, is somewhat like holding an unwound jack-in-the-box. While you know that it shouldn’t go off, there’s still a nagging suspicion that it might. I get a similar feeling when I check news websites in the morning – somewhere in the back of my mind, […]
iPhone OS 3 to talks to accessories in dock connector
By way of Ladyada comes this tidbit from this morning’s iPhone OS 3.0 press conference. She writes: Ryan Block from GDGT has some major news from the iPhone 3.0 press conference, pretty soon you’ll be able to make/hack/add any accessories to the iPhone – wow! We’ll see some Arduino projects shortly. 10:20AM – Apps talk […]