New Wearable Electronics Platform – FLORA
I’m really excited about this new sewable Arduino compatible board called the FLORA.
Month: January 2012
How-To: Chevron Decorated Mitten Cookies
I don’t hold out much hope that I’ll ever be able to decorate perfect cookies with royal icing. But, if I ever give it a try, I want to make chevron patterned mitten cookies like Ashleigh from Bee in Our Bonnet. Follow the link for her full how-to! [Via One Pretty Thing] More: How-To: Granny […]
How-To: UP House Pincushion
This pincushion inspired by the movie UP from Megan at Radmegan in Words and Pictures is definitely the most charming thing that I’ve seen on a craft blog all week. (Get it? The pins are the balloons!) Head over to her site to see how to make one of your own.
Detecting Dirty Dishes with OpenCV
What happens in a shared space like a hackerspace, where you could have as many as fifty people passing through the communal kitchen in a given day? All those cups start to pile up quickly, I’m sure. Not one to let things get out of hand, London Hackspace member Tom created a solution to combat the problem. True to hackerspace form, he combined different open source technologies to alert the members in the space when a dish has been left in the sink for more than a few minutes.
New in the Maker Shed: Digit Shield
Need a simple, low cost way to display digits using your Arduino? Look no further than the Digit Shield now available in the Maker Shed! This easy to assemble shield uses a bright green 4 digit, 7 segment display to give you the data you need.
Printable Valentine Cards From Hello!Lucky
These printable Valentine cards from Hello!Lucky remind me of the packs of cards I gave out as a kid. I’m a sucker for a good pun and adorable illustrations, so they are right up my alley. Check out the whole collection and print your own over on the Hello!Lucky blog! Related: How-To: Valentine’s Day Matchbook […]
NXT-Based Brick Sorting Robot
This monster Lego sorting robot, built by Kenneth and Lasse of BrickIt, organizes bricks by size as well as color. It uses 28 motors, 7 NXT microcontroller bricks, 7 muxes, 22 sensors, and 37,500 Lego elements total. The NXT bricks communicate with each other via bluetooth and are programmed in leJOS, a Java-based firmware replacement […]