A Drone of One’s Own
Our take on five commercial quadrotors ranging from toys to tools.
Month: August 2013
How-To: Lucky Underpants Badge
This lucky underpants badge tutorial from Bugs and Fishes just makes me smile and smile.
DIY Seed Growing Jar
When you were in school, did you ever place a bean in a plastic bag with a paper towel and waited and waited for it to grow?! Crumb Bums has a new take on the science experiment tradition by using a Mason jar to house your soon-to-be plants.
Washi Tape Tealight
This sweet and simple Washi Tape Tea Light DIY by A Merry Mishap is so easy and changes any store-bought candle into a custom decoration. Great for just a couple of tea lights around the house or even better to do to a whole collection of tea lights for a centerpiece.
Adafruit’s Custom Raspberry Pi Distro Gets an Upgrade
There are some great features packed into Adafruit’s latest update to Occidentalis, their custom Raspberry Pi distro.
Networking 400 Balloons with XBees
Rob Faludi, author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks, is helping to light up the sky with XBees: This week I’m heading to Newcastle upon Tyne in the U.K. for Connecting Light, 400 giant illuminated balloons that will cross England coast to coast along Hadrian’s Wall, a 2000-year-old Roman barrier. This will be my first exposure […]
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 10, Gakken, Documentation
We’re very happy to nominate Gakken for this year’s Documentation Makey. Gakken is a huge publishing company that’s been around for over sixty years producing educational materials and kits like the Denshi blocks they brought to market in the 70s. We’ve been carrying their Otona no Kagaku (Adult Science) mook and kit combos in the […]