Bicycle drawing machine
With this drawing machine by Joseph L. Griffiths, you can turn your peddling into art!
Month: December 2010
Bowl From Melted Toy Soldiers
Sean @ Make: Online writes: Dominic Wilcox wants £159 for his 2002 piece War Bowl, which may make some amount of sense since Wilcox is a fairly well-established “name” artist, and the piece itself has been exhibited in various fancy places. Still, you can make your own version by partially melting a bunch of army […]
Maker Shed Deal of the Day: Fashioning Technology Starter Pack
Today’s Maker Shed Deal of the Day is great for anyone who wants to get started with soft circuits. Buy a copy of Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan and get a Salt ‘n Peanut soft circuit kit free!
Mil-spec snake robot
I’m digging this Israeli military robo-snake(!) of which each segment packs its own power supply, sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers. Looks like the business end has a camera ringed with IR LEDs. (See the snake in action in this video.) [Via Dvice] More: Modular snake robots Amphibious snake-like robot “ACM-R5” Swimming robot snake
How-To: Spinning Tops From Plastic Bottle Caps
Sara of Creative Jewish Mom shares this brilliant and quick project for turning plastic bottle caps into spinning tops, perfect for Hanukkah games and general fun for kids and adults alike.
Crafty Events
This weekend it’s wall-to-wall craft fairs! In this post alone, there are 26 craft fairs listed, and I’m sure that’s only a fraction of the number that are actually happening. Buy handmade gifts this weekend! It’s a solid way to infuse some $$ in your local economy. Click to add an event to the online […]
New in the Maker Shed: MicroSD card breakout board
The MicroSD card breakout board from the Maker Shed makes logging data with your Arduino really easy. Simply connect 4 wires to the digital pins of your Arduino, along with +5V and GND, and you will be reading and writing data to a micro SD card using the SDfat library. Features Onboard 5v->3v regulator provides […]