Month: June 2007

Furochic Wrapping Fabric

Jenny at Cut+Paste has Furochic by Jenny Wren Paperie in stock in her store. Inspired by the Japanese art of Furoshiki, these beautifully printed fabric squares come with directions on how to fold. ($12.00) Link. Related: Natalie on the TV show, “View from the Bay” demoing Furoshiki – Link. Furoshiki directions – Link.

iRobot Create Robot (review)

iRobot Create Robot (review)

Todbot (author of Roomba Hacking) has a review of the iRobot Create Robot, he writes – At the 2007 CES iRobot announced a robot explicitly designed for hobbyist and educational robotics experimenters called the iRobot Create. The iRobot Create is now shipping and iRobot kindly sent me one to review and verify it’s applicability to […]

Use a Google Spreadsheet as a simple CMS

Using Google’s Spreadsheet API, you can create a simple CMS for your website extremely easily. It’s as simple as making a new sheet with key/value pairs for any fields you want dynamically populated. You can then access the data from javascript via the JSON API. Any updates to the spreadsheet will be immediately reflected in […]