Service vehicles make giant parking robots
As part of the Images ’08 festival, Guillaume Reymond organized service vehicles of the city of Vevey, Switzerland, into large automobile robots, photographed from the air. What a fun project!
Month: September 2008
Energy efficiency on a chip
Article @ Cnet on TI’s new “Energy efficiency chip” — this is interesting, most microcontrollers can do this now with pulse width modulation & analog to digital sensors, but TI seems to be grabbing the mindshare as they say… Energy efficiency, in general, is considered the most cost-effective way to decrease pollution. And specialized power […]
Homemade Notepads
Sarah from The Small Object shares her adventures in making her own notepads using this handy-dandy brush-on padding compound. I’m totally inspired to run around my place gathering up scrap papers to turn into notepads now!
Weekend Project: New Life For Old Zip Drives
The good old Zip Drive introduced by Iomega in late 1994 served it’s purpose as a medium-capacity removable disk storage system until obsolescence kicked in as it was replaced by flash drives as well as rewritable CDs and DVDs. Here are a few things you can do to give new life to that outdated drive. […]
Creating a Crafty Google Map of Austin
When I visited Portland, Oregon earlier this summer, I had no problem researching all the cool crafty spots to hit during our visit. Thanks to Diane Gilleland’s Google Map of the crafty Portland hot spots, I could easily plan a crafty adventure there. Inspired by her ingenious use of Google Maps, I’ve started a crafty […]
Build a commercial-size food dehydrator
‘Stringstetcher’ didn’t want to spend a lot of time, or money, making a commercial size food dehydrator. The solution was to use “Sonotube” that is readily available in hardware stores. I would be a little cautious with the heater up against the tube, but it is low temperature and only takes about 3 hours to […]
Build a rowboat in your living room
So you thought that you didn’t have enough space to build a boat? How about making one in your living room? The first few pictures are a bit small, but the descriptions of the build are very good. This was my first attempt at building a boat. It’s done in the stitch and glue style. […]