Month: March 2011

How-To: Plush Angry Birds

More crafty Angry Birds goodness for you, this time in the form of plushie toys. Care of Obsessively Stitching has been making these fun plush Angry Bird characters for a while, and has collected tutorials and patterns for each one over on her blog. Enjoy! More: How-To: Needle-Felted Angry Bird Angry Birds in Lego Angry […]

Secure iPad Stand

Secure iPad Stand

If you’ve ever been in a situation where you wanted to make an iPad available to the public, but didn’t want it to walk away when you weren’t looking, you know that your options are pretty limited if you’d rather not attach something permanently to your iPad. That’s where Seattle area Etsy user modgrain’s Secure iPad Stand come in.

Computerless Arduino

So cool: The Computerless Arduino consists of two major components; an Arduino-compatible microcontroller loaded with a realtime code interpreter, and a stand-alone 5-button LCD display to display port values and manipulate code. The display can be connected to the Arduino via a 4-pin port at any time to peek at In/Out values, view the current […]

3D-Printed Bike

Eureka Magazine has a profile of this sweet ride, the whole thing “printed” from laser-sintered nylon powder. The ‘Airbike’ is made of nylon but, according to EADS, is strong enough to replace steel or aluminium and requires no conventional maintenance or assembly. It is ‘grown’ from powder, allowing complete sections to be built as one […]