This interesting art project, entitled “m/e/m/e 2.0 (dreams of the 21st century)” by Danja Vasiliev is an interactive installation that provides an ironic twist to the world of web 2.0. The project consists of 28 old CD/DVD-ROM drives which open and close through a web based interface. Each tray is filled with a circuit board […]
Want to make your own Arduino shields? Garrett at Macetech has an Eagle file to make your life a little easier: I created a very basic Arduino shield scaffold; the schematic has only the standard Arduino headers, and the PCB has the correct header spacing and labels. The PCB headers are locked so they can’t […]
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Love, love, love these periodic table mini-sweater ornaments by Geekcrafting and Uberdork. If you’d like to whip up your own, you could use the free mini-sweater ornament pattern from Berroco as a jumping-off point.
Or car? Somewhere in between is this project from SJSU: (via Ecofriend) Here’s the homepage for Dr. Hsu, and here’s a presentation he gave on solar cells (pdf). At $4,000 and 30 mph with a 60-mile range, sounds like a good alternative to smaller gas-powered scooters!
When I was a kid my grandmother gave me a subscription to World magazine, it was a kids version of National Geographic – I grew up in the middle of nowhere and we also didn’t have TV – each month I’d wait outside on the dirt road for the postal delivery of the magazine. It […]
Yarn School will be back in session at the Harveyville Project in Kansas this February, as the folks from Camp Pluckyfluff help teach fiber fans all the ins and outs of taking their handspun yarns to the next level. Head over to the Harveyville website for full details.
World Gross Domestic Product — fabricated in wood via Beyond the Beyond. Beech wood, poplar plywood; 40 × 60 × 20 cm;The data sculpture Fundament shows the allocation of the world’s gross domestic product in comparison to the worldwide derivatives volume. The statistical data was aquired from the CIA World Factbook and the International Monetary Fund. The sculpture […]
