Shiny balls of mud gallery
Bruce Gardner has a galley of hikaru dorodango a Japanese schoolyard pastime where kids polish clumps of mud to create these amazing little nuggets of shiny – [via] – Link & how-to
Month: August 2006
Cockroach controlled robot (video)
Garnet Hertz’s roach controlled bot is making the rounds around the web, here’s a really good video (that I haven’t seen) of it in action – Link. Related: Made on Earth – Reports from the world of backyard technology, including a cockroach-controlled robot, high altitude glider, student-built cyclotron, Vee 9 solar vehicle, robotic CD burner, […]
Farm dragsters
These farmers aren’t messing around, they are drag racing on completely tricked out tractors – [via] – Link (photo gallery).
DIY Jet engine mirror
Ah yah, this the type of mirror any respectable Maker home needs to do up, MrSuperPants writes – “Bathroom mirror made from a scrap stator ring from a jet engine. Ring is un-modified other than being laquered. Mirror is a standard plain round mirror from homebase which handily is just the right size. Mounting is […]
The NES AdPAD
Silas shows you how to mod a NES Advantage pad, with optional add on NES controller, he – “I really like my NES, and i really like the features of the NES Advantage pad :-P Unfortunatly the advantage pad is not good to play with. It requires enourmous movement of your hand to use the […]
DIY Mold resistant ultraviolet bread box
Jared writes – “This project came from a challenge I was given by a fan of InventGeek. Basically they chose the most common place and mundane item they could think of and challenged me to improve it in a practical way. So how do you improve a bread box? Well for starters I how about […]
From garbage to gold…
BusinessWeek has an article about entrepreneurs creating companies using other people’s junk – “Two years ago, Eli Reich was a mechanical engineer consultant for a Seattle wind energy company when his messenger bag was stolen. The environmentally conscious Reich, who rode his bike to work every day, decided that instead of buying a new one, […]