View from Inside a Running 4-stroke Engine
Ever wonder what was going on inside your car engine, but were too afraid to open up a hole and just look?
Year: 2010
Using Flash to control a Peggy 2 LED board
Leonard Souza wanted to control a large LED panel using flash, so he cooked up a solution using a Java UDP client, which then relays the data over a serial port to an Arduino, which finally transmits the data over SPI to the Peggy.
Visions of nomadic fabbers
Mobile Manufacturing Unit — This corporate factory tours the country, setting up in cities for a few months at a time. As the population welcomes a new source of goods, jobs and manufacturing techniques, it is celebrated as an event. Self Replicating Street Stall — The street Genie can print any product you might think […]
DIY bellows to protect your CNC leadscrews
Keeping dust and metal shavings out of your CNC machine is vital to it’s proper operation, and what better way to do so then with some homemade bellows?
3it3ot: A dancing NXT robot
Mindstorms maniac NeXTSTORM created this awe-inspiring “club dance robot” named 3it3ot. 3it3ot’s main body is based on my previous robot named TubeIt. In 3it3ot’s body you’ll find one NXT brick, one NXT motor (moves the head up/down), one touch sensor (to detect head’s position), one HiTechnic IR-Link and one sound sensor (to interact with humans). […]
Gentleman’s bulletproof pocket square
Reykjavik designer Sruli Recht is selling a limited number of these kevlar pocket squares made from “military grade lemon aramid” fiber. For some reason, he calls it “DÆmdur,” which apparently means “The Damned .”
How-To: Dried Petal Wreaths
Spring has finally sprung! At least here in Northern California. The plum blossoms and daffodils are over, but the tulips are here and the roses soon to follow. Soon, all of nature’s blooms will be plentiful again, gracing our gardens and homes with their ephemeral beauty. But you don’t have to throw cut flowers away […]