News From The Future – Grime-Fighting Garments Purify Air
This is really cool, I want all my clothing coated in titanium dioxide (used in self-cleaning glass).
Month: January 2012
Embroidered Doily
This gorgeous embroidered doily from Smallest Forest sits right at the intersection of two of my absolute favorite things: needlework and crochet. The intricate stitches make a beautiful substitution for the usual loops of crochet thread, and I can’t wait to see the finished project! [Via Feeling Stitchy]
Make: Live’s Season 2 Premiere (ep24 preview)
Join us as we kick off a brand new season of Make: Live on Wednesday, January 11th at 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am GMT at https://makezine.com/live
How-To: Keyboard Breakout Board
If you’re building a standalone project with an embedded PC (say, a CNC rig or a MAME cabinet) one of the easiest ways to get instructions to the software is using the PC’s baked-in keyboard interface. But if you don’t want to actually use a keyboard to control the thing, you need some way to convert button presses and/or joystick movements from your custom control panel into signals that look like keyboard input.
Math Monday: Slice a Bagel into 13 Pieces with Three Cuts (Our 100th Column!)
Celebrate the one hundredth “Math Monday”> column with a return to yet another mathematical way to slice bagels.
Project: Travel Jewelry Clutch
By Emilee Gettle I travel a lot throughout the year, and since I’m living out of my suitcase, I like to keep things organized and at my fingertips at a moment’s notice. After years of tangled necklaces, I decided it wasn’t worth the time wrangling through them in the morning when I was late for […]
Sub-$100 Cardboard Hexapod Robot
Mike Estee has been laser-cutting hexapod limbs from cardboard and is making great progress on his hexapod project. As he explains:
As I’ve written about in the past, cost can be measured in many ways. For this exercise I’m primarily interested in cost of materials, cost of manufacturing, and assembly time. Design time isn’t particularly optimized here, but as we build on previous iterations, hopefully we can stay ahead of complexity. On the cold hard cash front, I think I’m doing pretty well. This little fellow consists of: $1.00 in cardboard, $54.60 in servos, and $29.95 in servo controllers.