Everyone loves a soft robot, and I’m fond of the marine variety. This bioinspired prototype tentacle, made of silicone rubber, not only curls and extends in eerily squidlike fashion, it’s also got pressure sensors embedded beneath its suckers so it can grasp objects, like a cephalopod should.
I love this project from Penelope and Pip to recycle the bottles you have at home and give your current vases a run for their money. Via The Long Thread
Positive response to the recent review of my antique Tapewriter label embosser got me thinking about lower-cost ways to make embossed aluminum labels. A comment from reader Rick Hyde (“Actually, the aluminum is so ductile that I bet any Dymo machine can emboss it.”) led me to wonder about feeding aluminum strip to one of […]
Here’s a sweet little pattern and tutorial from Destri of The Mother Huddle for making a purse using bracelets as the handles. The perfect little bag to stuff all those little trinkets and what-nots into that a girl just can’t leave home without… Slips over little arms perfectly, we’ve yet to leave the house without […]
Made with ten layers of edge-lit acrylic, Jürgen Grau’s numeric display is a low-voltage facsimile of the old school Nixie Tube displays that so many of us are enamored with.
This doily print clay bowl from Caro at Sodapop Design is absolutely stunning, and would make a perfect gift for those upcoming spring and summer weddings. Fair warning: The site is in German, but there are good photos for each step.
Drinking our tea in cozy confidence, we plugged the production samples into Arduino, put the unit on our fingertip, and casually looked at the screen for the Processing sketch to perfectly render our heartbeat. [Cue first spit-take.]
