When I was a tween, I lived for slot-cars. Our small town outside of Richmond, VA had two slot car shops/tracks for a few years. This video from Spain shows a race from fixed and car-mounted cameras. Really nice track too. And vroom-vroom sound effects. Scalextric EXIN made in Spain [via]
Our friends at SparkFun Electronics have a fun Maker Faire wrap up and have some new things in stock… At Maker Faire I joked with Nathan the CEO, that SparkFun should do a credit card with a loyalty program, I’d totally trade miles for transistors. Here are some of their latest products that looked interesting […]
Sean Ragan has a tutorial for extracting plant essences at home using a combination of kitchen items you probably already have, and a special shaped “schoolhouse” style glass lampshade. This thorough walkthrough will help you make scents for soaps, laundry, etc. from rose petals, rosemary, and other plants.
Holy Wow! Basically, it is exactly what it sounds like; a button that instantly launches a party. When pressed, the blinds to my apartment close, the kitchen, hallway, dining room, and living room lights dim, the stereo starts blasting Haddaway – What Is Love, black lights turn on, laser lights start moving to the music, […]
If you’re in a pinch and need to come up with a last-minute Mother’s Day gift, look no further! We’ve assembled a list of craft tutorials that have caught our eye–and all of them can easily be whipped up by this Sunday, no problemo. Burda Style has a tutorial for making a luxurious eye mask, […]
As John Park puts it: “I took the whole art of double-clicking on an icon and made it really complicated and brought it into the physical world.” He made a conveyor belt that has an RFID reader underneath. When you place a wooden icon tile for a website (which has an RFID tag on it), […]
Great article and gallery @ NOTCOT from the Cans Festival featuring BANKSY and 600 other artists… The space itself opened with powder blue billboard with “GENTRIFY THIS†painted aggressively in black, which a mother explained to her young daughter behind me in line was “delightfully ironicâ€, a phrase that applied just as well to the […]
