10 Gifts Under $10 for the SF Geek With the economy in a downward spiral and Christmas just eight days away, the gang at GeekDad headquarters are there to help you decide on what gifts to get every member of your geekly gang. Christmas Camouflage Christmas Camouflage, not as cruel tricks to fool and deceive […]
You can make your own USB microscope using an old webcam and a cheap toy microscope. All it takes is a soldering iron, some hot glue, and an hour of your time. Instructables user moris_zen has the details, which basically involves a little focusing trial and error before gluing things together: While you view the […]
When I glanced up from shoveling the driveway it looked like some kind of cool pattern. Maybe I did it on purpose, maybe it just happened that way. A quick photo from my pocket camera and then it was time to make it really go away. Most of the continental US seems to be in […]
The Purl Bee has a killer idea for making this quick scarf out of super-bulky wool (doubled strands) so you can work it up lickety-split, just in time for holiday gift-giving. Phew!
Our pal I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, got a nice profile on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. Congrats, man.
Here’s a project I did this Christmas. It’s the “Gift of Robot Invasion” LED Christmas Tree Ornament from The Best of Instructables, Volume 1. The bot is made out of copper plumbing parts, scrap circuit board, dead transistors for hands, the bottom of a beer can (for the bot’s satellite dish) and paper clips. The […]
I love the funny and characterful scenes that Lenny & Meriel manage to capture with their Sparebots sculptures — like this dude, obviously ready for a bellyful of button cell. Sparebots
