Lighten your wallet – use a phone
Here’s a good a idea, scan in all those loyalty cards on to your phone!
Month: May 2008
Motor art
Lockwasher’s motor art via Land-o-links. Pictured here, the alumarocket car sculpture… Welcome to the 22nd century, or should that be the 4th dimension (I always get those two confused) either way your ready to blast off in our newest invention – The Aluma Rocket. OK, sure, It’s really just an aluminum flower vase with really […]
Crazy Clay Head Mother’s Day Present
Cynthia from the Colorado Art Studio blog teaches an after school clay class to children. This crazy clay head is a “free clay” project that Cynthia’s daughter made in class and gave to her for Mother’s Day. I don’t know why, but I fell in love with this crazy little guy.
Mechanical music box from scrap
Dug North sent word of this interesting weight-driven music box – “Andante Grazioso” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / KV331) played by a “Mechanical Music Box in a Drawer” made from recycling materials found in electronic-waste, bulky trash and at home. That can must be somewhat thick in order achieve such a bell-like tone – an impressive […]
Arduino Nano
Just when you thought you had them all, the Arduino mutates yet again – The new Arduino Nano is the smallest and most versatile Arduino board yet. Designed and manufactured by US-based Gravitech, it has all the functionality of an Arduino Diecimila in a compact, breadboard-ready design. The Nano includes an ATmega168 microcontroller (w/ bootloader), […]
Debian/Ubuntu users: update your SSL keys and certs
It was announced yesterday that sometime back in September 2006 a line of code was removed from the Debian distributed OpenSSL package. That one line of code was responsible for causing an uninitialized data warning in Valgrind. It also seeded the random number generator used by OpenSSL. Without it, the error went away, but the […]
Denyse Schmidt and Heather Ross: Portland Appearance
The lucky denizens of super-crafty Portland, OR will be able to stop by Bolt Fabric Boutique on Friday night from 5-7pm for a casual meet-and-greet with fabric designers Denyse Schmidt and Heather Ross. Check out their new fabric lines and find out more about the great fabrics and classes Bolt has to offer.