There has got to be someone who reads this blog in the L.A. area who can teach this. It looks like a lot of fun! Design-a-Robot Class Using the Lego Mindstormsâ„¢ system, build an autonomous robot and teach it to navigate an obstacle course and interact with other robots and kids. Follow your curiosity to […]
Elizabeth Mareno has written a crochet pattern for her Whimsical Caste bag. Looks like one of those Japanese garden statues, but it actually doubles as a secret basket to hold anything you want. In this case, Elizabeth finds it a fun place to stash her crochet friends. Brilliant! Link.
One of the issues with playing shovercraft, is that you rely on others to push you around. With this product, or one you make yourself, you could add some thrust to your personal hovercraft. I suppose you could use it for a bike or kayak too, if you had to. As an added bonus, it’s […]
At first glance, I thought this was a hacked Game Boy Advance… I was wrong. Here are a few pics of my own DTV Hummer project. I had an old PSOne LCD screen lying around and I thought I’d make a C64 laptop. Actually, it’s more like a C64 PDA! It measures 6.5 x 6 […]
So you got a robot, but don’t know what to do with it? Play games! In this game, played at the second Wonderful Robot Carnival, you try and pop the balloons on other robot’s backs while protecting your own! – Link
Knitting News Cast has a cool wrist pattern where you can generate a pattern to make your own customized wrist warmers. Just enter in the circumference of your wrist, the gauge, and your needle size, and volia!! — a special pattern made just for you. Link.
This came out a few months ago, but I just found this on Flickr while researching the upcoming weekend project. It’s a way of automating your isight to take a picture 60 seconds after you, or anyone, open it up. Flickr member omegastation set this up before sending off his macbook for fixing. In a […]
