DIY Wall Decor with Paper and Fabric
My second post is up on the FM Shopping Guide that show you how simple it can be to decorate your walls and doors with fabric or paper. Link.
Month: September 2007
$30 White River challenge
Randy and Adam write in… – My brother and I built a canoe for under $30 using mostly materials rescued from dumpsters. We called the project our “$30 White River Challenge.” On Labor Day we attempted to paddle the junkboat from Muncie to Noblesville, Indiana, a 50-mile trip. We didn’t make it nearly that far, […]
Halo papercraft Master Chief
Wow! Here’s an incredibly detailed Halo papercraft Master Chief (PDF included to make your own) – [via] Link.
Open source hardware: Birth of a long tail market?
Matt Hartley @ Itmanagement has an interesting article about open source hardware (I found it because of the MAKE mention). Worth a read, post your thoughts in the comments – With open source software becoming a household name, another open source movement that may one day see some fanfare is already taking shape. Open source […]
Storm drain graffiti
Sao Paul storm drain graffiti art… – [via] Link.
Install several versions of IE at once
If you’ve ever had to do any web testing, you’ve probably found that it’s a major pain trying to test out a site in multiple versions of IE, since new versions of IE tend to wipe out previous installs. I usually use a different virtual machine instance for different browsers and OSs I want to […]
Japanese face-shifter robots invade
And you thought that LittleDog video represented a leap-forward in robo-kind. The WD-2 (Waseda-Docomo face robot No.2) is a face-changing robot from the Takanishi Laboratory at Waseda University in Japan. Servo motors move armatures connected to contact points on a face mask made of Septon, a thermoplastic rubber. The face has 56 degrees of freedom […]