Marble Clipboard
Loving this lovely DIY marble clipboard by Fabric Paper Glue!
Month: April 2013
How-To: Press Violets to Make Botanical Art
Love flowers and floral decor? Press violets to make your own botanical art!
How-To: Paper Butterfly Specimen Pendants
Crafting meets science class with this tutorial for cute paper butterfly specimen pendants!
BeagleBone Lego Motor Control Board
CircuitCo’s Motor Cape with NXT allows you to control up to 8 Mindstorms motors with a BeagleBone microcontroller. Alas, the board doesn’t accept data from sensors or from the encoders built into Lego’s motors. You can preorder the board on Boardzoo and they also have a version with terminals blocks.
Kickstarting the HexBright: Adventures in Flashlight Hacking
Christian Carlberg is a Cornell-educated mechanical engineer. After his undergraduate degree, he spent three years doing classical aerospace work and getting an MS, part time, at night school. At 25 he moved to LA to work in movie FX, specifically “practical effects”—physical, animatronic robot-based puppets now in decline thanks to low-cost CGI. After that, he […]
Game Boy Pitch Bending Turntable
Andrew “MilLs Dj” Miller’s modified DJ Hero turntable allows you to bend the sound and gameplay speed of any Game Boy game! [via GetLoFi]
200,000 Piece Lego Sci-Fi Jaw Dropper
New York-based graphic designer and artist Mike Doyle’s latest piece, titled Contact 1, employs over 200,000 Lego bricks and took him over 600 hours to build.