Check out this homemade line following robot! This is a shot of the insides of my robot. I initially used a solder less breadboard to make sure my circuit worked. I used an M &Ms tube to hold the motors in place. – Via – Link
DIY helmet cam – “The helmet-cam is useful anytime you want video but you don’t want to use a hand or second video-person on the project. We use ours to record the designing and building of HowToons projects. It can be an invaluable anlysis and learning tool for rapid prototyping.” – Link.
Crafty use of old bottle caps – make magnets and thumbtacks – [via] – Link.
Prank writes “Build a nice bike trailer out of a piece of electrical conduit and some old bike bits” – Link.
I used to disassemble hard drives, whenever possible, both to extract the magnets and to see how the different types worked. Different hard drives contain all kinds of wonderful components: voice coil motors, stepper motors, exotic bearings, electropolished machined parts, chemically etched metal webs, flexible circuitry, and my personal favorite: optical quadrature encoders for pivot […]
The Tape Making Madness Continues… I needed a carrying wrap to keep tools from bouncing around in my scooter. All I wanted was a sheet with pockets/loops to hold tools. I started with only three, but there is space for more. –Link In need of a larger bag for my camera equips, i embarked on […]
Lizette Greco makes crafty goods based on the drawings of her children. Now it looks like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as her kids have started to make their own cuddly creatures themselves. Posted up on the CRAFT flickr pool are these photos. Pictured left is her son’s pterodactyl and at right […]
