“PIO: meet / greet” by the artist group / collective, Finishing School, is a semi-autonomous drone that moves through public spaces to send salutations to people in the six official languages of the United Nations. Built from what looks like the innards of an RC car, portable megaphone, distance sensors to detect pedestrians in order […]
Although this project is considered old by blog standards (2002), we still like the simplicity of this device. The “Transparent Headphones” are a custom built pair of headphones with a microphone attached to the outside of each ear piece. The device detects nearby sounds and fades the sound out of the corresponding ear that detects […]
This project, entitled “Viva Las Vegas” by Danish artist Alexander Laner is a kinetic light installation built from recycled hardware, neon lights, extension cables, and is all perched on a motorized stand that sends the electronics heap into a nifty POV output device. The play on words is pretty dead on, and it will definitely […]
Heads up, Crafters–there’s been a glue gun recall. Be sure to check and see if this one if hanging around in your stash of crafting tools. Dollar Tree recalls 470,000 China-made glue guns Tue Jun 24, 8:55 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dollar Tree Inc recalled about 470,000 Chinese-made hot glue guns because they are […]
What do you put in a laser cutter when you know you have precious little time with it left? The answer is anything BUT your skin. Blinded by the love of the laser, the folks at instructables laser etched themselves. This is a very bad idea, and even without reading the personal account of the […]
Blessed Roots shares her step-by-step tutorial for making this colorful wristlet, which holds new parent essentials like two diapers and a hard-case package of baby wipes.
Lots of pics of the Seattle Power Tool Drag Race in this Flickr Pool. Seattle Power Tool Race and Derby 2008
