Carnegie Mellon wins DARPA’s urban robot race
Congrats to Red Whittaker and his team! In 2004 none of the robot driven cars made it to the finish line, but this year 6 of the 11 did – Link.
Month: November 2007
Joule Thief Podcast – End of the weekend reminder!
Have you made the Joule Thief yet? If not, get this is your reminder to watch the video, download the PDF and get cracking! Subscribe in iTunes and get the pdf and the video downloaded automatically! – Subscribe Link Joule Thief Video Podcast – Link Joule Thief PDFcast – Link Windell’s further description and explanation […]
Last day to enter the Halloween contest
Makers and Crafters, this is your last chance to enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the contests. MAKE, CRAFT, Instructables and Popular Science will be start the judging soon so enter your photos on Flickr, your projects on Instructables or just email them to […]
Make yourself look good, I mean really good
This is a good way to get those self portraits right once and for all. The self portrait arm will make your crappy, unfocused shots into instant masterpieces. Not to mention, make you look really dorky while taking them. Also you could easily fashion one of these for yourself with an old golf club or […]
Handmade Holiday Alert
Sister Diane of CraftyPod just launched the Handmade Holiday Alerts on the DIY Alert site. Diane writes: It works like this: every Friday, I send out a fun email newsletter that introduces five Portland makers and tells a little story about them and their work. From it, you can link through to their websites for […]
Solar hat fan keeps you cool
This baseball hat has a solar panel on top and DC motorized fan on the front with a nice ventilation hole cut in the bill. Very handy for a summer day or also useful for walks through well lit bakeries if you want the full aromatic experience. Solar Fan Cap – Link
Daylight saving time set your clocks back an hour
I’m setting my clock back now, don’t forget to set back yours… On a related note here’s a neat tidbit from the origins of daylight savings time (Wikipedia) – During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin anonymously published a letter in 1784 suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by arising earlier […]