Enviably agile and purposeful, the mobile robot makes its way through grounds rendered off-limits to humans as the result of a chemical accident. Depressions, ruts and other obstacles are no match for this eight-legged high-tech journeyman. Its mission: with a camera and measurement equipment on board, it will provide emergency responders with an image of […]
I love this sweet little fish Abby of While She Naps created with just a ping pong ball, a hankie and a few embellishments. I could see even dyeing the hankies and hanging a whole cluster of these in a corner of a room. So cool!
Shauna Richardson crochets beautifully crafted sculptures of animals that she calls “crochetdermy.” She uses crochet to sculpt realistic life-size animals – uncanny taxidermy-like forms. Crochetdermy combines themes such as objects, collecting, craft and realism and experiments with accessibility and audience. Her work is currently in the exhibition, “The Power of Making” at the Victoria and […]
I love this cute and sturdy crochet rope basket from Katherine of Making Chicken Salad. She’s used nylon rope to create a chunky and durable basket, and shares the pattern over on her blog. [via @papernstitch]
John Graham-Cumming created this sleek 7×7 LED display by hacking up a string of addressable Christmas lights from GE. Starting from Robert Quattlebaum’s excellent tutorial, he mounted an Arduino Pro and GE Color Effects G-35 Christmas lights inside a frame and diffused the light with a cutting board. I especially like how he used servo arms to secure the backing to the frame. He coded the Arduino so that custom messages and patterns can be displayed and in the video above he shows it displaying “Thanks GE” for making these hackable Christmas lights.
Using a pair of capacitive touch styli inside a cylindrical mirror, a team from the Ochanomizu University have built a system for displaying and controlling interactive anamorphic images on the iPad. By taking advantage of the iPad’s capacitive touchscreen, the device allows a user to rotate and view images of objects that appear to float within the mirror.
We’ve only had our cat in our new house, and the windows here stretch from floor to ceiling giving her what we like to call her own personal big screen tv view of the backyard. I hadn’t thought about, though, what it would have been like to have her in our old house that had […]
