Showcase your clever reuse of old objects in Inhabitat’s Spring Greening Competition. Deadline for entries is May 3rd at 11:59pm. From the site: To enter, upload up to 3 photos of your clever, creative reuse of old objects or materials that might otherwise be collecting dust. We are looking for ingenious examples of design reuse […]
Smart Car too big for you? Too much of a road hog? Gas guzzler? What you need is a real “microcar,” like a Peel Trident or a Peel P50. These strange little cars were made by Peel Engineering, on the Isle of Man, in the 1960s — most ran on a 50cc (49cc, actually) moped […]
The Flora Grubb Gardens blog (San Francisco, CA) has a stunning archive of vertical succulent gardens they have helped to create. To me they resemble an airplane view of some incredibly lush, almost alien, landscape.
Josh of imsolidstate needed to reverse engineer a stepper motor on a linear actuator that he was repairing, so he built this 9-digit pulse counter to keep track of how the motor was being controlled.
Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest DIY festival, is right around the corner, taking place at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on May 22nd and 23rd. One of the biggest new projects coming to the Faire this year is the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, pictured above and hand-crafted by a large and dedicated crew. We sent […]
There is no end to the awesome innovations that will be on display at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest DIY festival, taking place at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on May 22nd and 23rd. One of the new green energy projects to be on display (and in use!) is Austin-based Sol Design […]
One of my students, Brian Bernhard, made this really awesome tutorial video as “Uncle Pappy,” the slightly demented but good-natured clown, showing you how to set up your BBQ grill for some delicious warm-weather culinary delights. He’s also written up an Instructable to guide you through the process! I agree with his assessment of the […]
