Electric Diwheel With Active Rotation Damping (EDWARD)
An honors mechanical engineering project from a group of thirteen at Australia’s University of Adelaide. Rich technical detail available at the project’s webpage.
Month: June 2011
DIY Softbox Lighting
Manitoba maker, Don Barnard, shows us how how to throw together a simple softbox using a shipping container, dollar store sun reflector, flood light, and some duct tape.
Lens Cap Holder
Photographer Mark Stevenson was sick of losing lens caps, so he came up with this clever lens cap holder that slips on your camera strap. [via Gizmodo]
Excellent MicroRAX/Linxmotion Robot Legs
Lynxmotion.net forum member ohbowz of Los Angeles built these beauteous limbs by combining two different building sets. Sweet! I made this biped with the intention of building a full body. I merged MicroRax parts with the Lynxmotion parts, a little bit of hacking and cheating was necessary to get everything to fit together nicely. At […]
Knitted Stop-Motion Short Movie
WOW. Check out this knitted, stop-motion short from Made of Wool. “The Little Red Plane” tells the story of a boy and his cat who, together, deliver goods all over.
DIY Clawfoot Tub Shower Caddy
I live in a house that was built as a vacation cabin almost 100 years ago. It’s charming, but because it was never meant to be lived in full time, it has a serious shortcoming- no storage. None, not even one hall closet, and in the bathroom the medicine cabinet is 3″ deep, with shelves […]
Open Hardware Summit 2011 – Call for Submissions #openhardware #oshw
The Open Hardware Summit is now accepting submissions for proposed talks, breakout sessions and demos. The deadline is June 24th, 2011. Ayah writes: The Open Hardware Summit (OHS) invites submissions for the second annual summit, to be held on September 15, 2011 in New York City. The Open Hardware Summit is a venue to present, […]