Plush toy maven and CRAFT friend Lauren Venell writes: I recently made this “Cash Cow” plush for the Plush You LA show at Munky King. It’s divided into the hidden costs of factory farming that we all pay, such as pollution clean-up, treating food-borne illness, and direct government subsidies to livestock companies. Lauren also […]
I love the beautiful simplicity of this paper owl mobile from Joel of Made by Joel. He’s provided a template and instructions for making your own. I’d love to make a whole grouping of them to hang in a window.
Justin Huynh over at Liquidware has pieced together another Beagleboard gadget. This time around he’s focused on building a DIY Beagleboard Ebook reader out of snap-on components and the open source FBReader software. It won’t fit in your pocket, but it more than makes up for it in hackability.
In response to the vibrating conveyor belt post, Ranjit Bhatnagar let us know about the sketching device #1 that he built back in 2002.
It must be fun to have Stephen Hobley as a parent, because he is always coming up with cool things for his kids to play with.
My friend Erica Kane, from HacDC, recently went to an open house at the University of Maryland’s robotics department. This is a cool thing to do, if you live near a school that has such a department (or some other tech discipline you’re interested in). Call them up and see if/when they’re doing an open […]
Congrats to Kristin from Livermore, CA, Macon from New York, NY, and Carol from Allen, TX who have each won a copy of the new book, Creative, Inc. The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco and Joy Deangdeelert Cho. Thanks to everyone who entered!
