New in the Maker Shed: Arduino Leonardo
The Arduino Leonardo is now available in the Maker Shed! It features all the capabilities of the Arduino Uno plus additional funcationality that will open up a whole new range of projects!
Month: June 2012
Engineer Guy vs. The Microwave Oven
The elements of the week are tungsten and thorium, which are alloyed to make the filament in the special type of vacuum tube—called a magnetron—that produces radiation in your microwave oven. Bill and the Engineer Guy team first explain the anatomy of a basic microwave oven, then…
Power Racing Series at Maker Faire KC
Insanely modded power wheels! Nerf fights! Magic smoke! Just another regular day of racing Power Wheels. The first round of the Power Racing Series, a $500 electric racing competition, took place this past weekend at Maker Faire KC. Teams earn points through speed, creativity and crowd pleasing. The next round in the Championship will be […]
Recipe: Cherry Wheat Beer Popsicles
Once your fancy grilled corn on the cob is gone and you’re relaxing in post-barbeque bliss, you’ll want a little dessert to top off the meal, right? I think these cherry wheat beer popsicles from Samantha at Sweet Remedy will hit the spot nicely! [Via Not Martha] More: How-To: Rainbow Popsicles @Craftzine.com blog Recipe: Chocolate […]
Cross-Stitched Animated GIF
Kacie Kim created a lovely cross-stitched embroidery of Tom Moody’s famous “OptiDiscs” GIF. I love the contrast of slow and crafty vs. quick and techy in these works.
80-Ruxpin Art Installation
TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak emotional content gathered from the web via synthetic speech with animated mouths. The speaking of the emotional content is accompanied by one of twenty-four musical vignettes that have been paired to the emotional content being spoken. Each vignette, […]
Van Gogh’s Starry Night Made from Falling Dominoes
Check out this mind blowing dynamic domino sculpture by renegade artist FlippyCat. This time-lapse video shows his painstakingly hand-constructed Starry Night rendition. It’s an amazing sculpture in static form, but wait till he knocks over the first domino — that’s when the magic truly happens. Starry Night made from falling dominoes