The age of the citizen scientist continues to be interesting – as opposed to using your computer for a screensaver to help compute bits, you can use the best computer ever – your brain – to help classify galaxies – You can listen to a podcast at SciAm too… Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, where you […]
Hipster Logic has released an iPhone electronics reference app, called, well… Electrical Ref. From their iTunes description: Have you ever wondered how many Ohms that resistor your holding is? Maybe wondered what the capacitance is of a ceramic disc capacitor with the code 103? Forgotten how to assemble a 555 timer circuit? Or wondered how […]
Sensor Fusion: High Speed Robots via jk. A human being recognizes external environment by using many kinds of sensory information. By integrating these information and making up lack of information for each other, a more reliable and multilateral recognition can be achieved. The purpose of Sensor Fusion Project is to realize new sensing architecture by […]
Kristin at Craft Leftovers shows you how to make your own DIY Canvas Panel in her two-part video.
I had a fantastic time at Seattle’s UCU Summer 2009. The organizers, volunteers, vendors, and visitors all had a very positive and friendly attitude, and my face hurts from smiling so much all weekend! You can check out photos of the event in the Urban Craft Uprising Flickr pool. Above photo of Ali Schiek and […]
Student makes bicycle which folds into 26-inch wheel circumference, wins James Dyson Prize Dominic Hargreaves’s bike, The Contortionist, has been shortlisted for this year’s James Dyson Award for innovation. It may bag the young inventor £10,000. The 24-year-old, from Battersea, London, said he wanted to create a decent folding bike after the one he was […]
Randy Sarafan needed some bright light for making (and documenting) projects, so he came up with this clamp-light-tastic curtain rod track lighting solution.
