Reminder: dorkbot-nyc – September 5th, 2007 (tonight) dorkbot in NYC, Doug writes – The 1493.456 × 10^23rd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. Info, directions, etc at: http://dorkbot.org It’s a special pre-Conflux Festival preview! Members of the Conflux 2007 curatorial team will introduce this […]
Fire and robots. Robot love. Burnination. I came across a couple of pyro-robot soulmates today. Flameosapien is our familiar buddy, slightly modified with a remote operated flamethrower. The Robosapien V2’s remote was modified with an additional 4 channer transmitter. Gas flow is adjusted by a small servo and ignited with a BBQ lighter. His more […]
This was one of the other winners of the Instructables/TreeHugger/PopSci Go Green! Contest. It’s a fairly easy to build tank-top sink that uses the inflow tank water as a (cold water) hand washing sink. Hack a Toilet for free water – Link Related: Go Green! contest winners – Link
This Instructable outlines the process of preparing to get your circuit designs fabbed into professional PCBs. It walks you through, from designing the schematic to preparing the Gerber files to finding a fabber and ordering your job. And yes, they got theirs done in China. We’ll leave the moral, political, and environmental decisions in that […]
Throughout the month of September, I’ll be teaming up with several Felt Club vendors (such as Charcoal Designs and Mr. Funky) and friends (like CRAFT magazine Editor-in-Chief Carla Sinclair) to present a series of hands-on craft demonstrations at the Los Angeles County Fair. We’ll be located in the Tapestry building, which is under the grandstand […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Vrogy is doing some metal casting, but somehow I think there’s more than meets the eye here… Link.
Here’s the perfect way to package up a handmade gift for babies. Zakka Life shows you how to roll up baby socks and pieces of felt to make your own sushi-to-go box aptly named “sock and roll sushi”. Link.
