Printable Free Compliments Poster
Love this Free Compliments poster by Amanda of Kind Over Matter. There’s even an blank version you can fill with your own compliments.
Month: January 2011
How-To: Faux Metal Flowers Bib Necklace
Jeromina of paper, plate and plane shows you how to make a faux metal floral bib necklace using Con-Tact vinyl shelf liner.
Robotic knifefish uses one fin to travel in all directions
Northwestern University professor Malcolm MacIver’s GhostBot is a robotic fish that can swim forward, backward, and vertically using its incredible ribbon-like fin. Ghostbot’s locomotion is inspired by a knifefish in MacIver’s aquarium, which a colleague observed making an unexpected, vertical movement. Further observations revealed that while the fish only uses one traveling wave along the […]
Pasta whistle!
It’s a whistle!
Arduino GSM shield tutorial
While it would be very useful, the thought of putting my Arduino projects on the GSM wireless network intimidates me a bit. Luckily, John Boxall of tronixstuff walks us through the process in part one of his Sparkfun GSM Shield tutorial. He breaks down how to dial a number and send a text message by […]
Learn how to screenprint your own t-shirts
In this podcast, Bre brings in Matt, the screenprinting expert of etsy.com, to the Weekend Projects podcast.
Have you ever wanted to create your own t-shirt designs? Look no further! Don’t forget to go and download the pdf to get all the details and supply lists. https://makezine.com/podcast
Robot Race and Nitinol Lightswitch – Weekend Projects
Ever since I heard about Nitinol, a shape-changing metal alloy, I’ve been wanting to play with it. In this video, I make a completely functional, but completely unnecessary lightswitch, put together a nitinol robot kit, an inch-bot and have a robot race!