By Andrew Lewis When I decided to visit a local art exhibition, I didn’t expect to find such an engaging treat waiting for me when I got there. Artist Nicola Freeman came up with these enchanting, fun sculptures as a part of the degree show at the University of Wolverhampton. The four pieces on show […]
The Mintronics Bundle from the Maker Shed is a great way to get started with Arduino and electronics. The MintDunio includes almost everything (requires an FTDI programmer like the FTDI Friend) you need to build a full featured Arduino based microcontroller. The Mintronics Survival Pack includes over 60 components to use with your MintDuino, electronics project, or just to restock your parts bin.
I love these whimsical tie embroidery patterns from Mollie of Wild Olive. They are perfect for Father’s Day, and could even be stitched on paper to create a really special Father’s Day card. Download the free patterns over on her blog.
Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics @ WIRED Magazine… For 25 years, the field of robotics has been bedeviled by a fundamental problem: If a robot is to move through the world, it needs to be able to create a map of its environment and understand its place within it. Roboticists have developed […]
Mark Crosbie’s Street View Car is packed with goodies, including a NXT brick, a dGPS sensor from Dexter Indistries, a NXTBee module, some cheap “spy cams” for imaging, and Mindstorms and Power Functions motors to run the thing. It all started when was playing with the dGPS sensor from Dexter Industries, and realised that if […]
What a simple and pretty design! Olgajazzy shares a detailed tutorial to knit up this cable necklace. You don’t even need to know how to follow a cable pattern – the design is ingeniously constructed from two flat strips. It closes with a button, so you can also wrap it around your wrist a couple […]
Thingiverse user EverydayInventors provides this worthy addition to the amusing warning label genre, for those “when you know it’s not a good idea, but you’ve gotta do it anyway” situations.
