This week’s clever maker-entrepreneur award goes to Etsy seller Cleaner Science, who makes and sells these awesome soaps that look like petri dishes full of growing germs. They’re easy to make (I presume), inexpensive to buy, light enough to ship cheaply, and totally original. Home run! Bonus: some include glow-in-the-dark spots! [via Geekologie]
It’s hard to give Carnegie Mellon PhD student Chris Harrison’s Skinput a fair shake without automatically assuming it’s a variant of Pravan Mistry’s Sixth Sense project. Nevertheless, it does employ different tech: Mistry’s Sixth Sense is optical; Skinput uses a “novel, non-invasive, wearable bio-acoustic sensor” to track your gestures. We present Skinput, a technology that […]
Delicate embellishments are a classic way to spruce up just about anything. I remember having tiny pink ribbon roses on my favorite pinafore when I was young, and the dainty trend is retuning in a big way. Materials: Wide wired ribbon, about 1′ Thin ribbon, about 2′ Large eye needle Thread a large eye needle […]
Bring your Arduino if you’ve got one, see you there! About This Dorkshop: David Cuartielles will be speaking about the past present and future of the Arduino platform, both hardware and software. There will be an opportunity for DT students to share their work in quick 3 – 5 min presentations. What have you made […]
The second graphic explains the physics behind what Boing-Boinger Jimmy Guterman has described as “the greatest scene ever in the greatest movie of all time,” viz. the destruction of a cruising jetliner by the eponymous “Mega Shark” from Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. You may be interested to know, for instance, that Mega Shark’s air attack requires that it break the surface of the water with a velocity of 710 km/hr, which is faster than a bullet train but not quite so fast as a Tomahawk missile.
Over at Make: Online a great discussion is taking place about OK Go’s Rube-Goldberg machine video. Four of the makers involved in the machine’s creation are at their keyboards, answering reader questions. Head on over and ask yours! The photo above is by Sara Ross-Samko.
Make, mod, hack, and bend your own analog noise monster with the new Thingamagoop 2 kit from the Maker Shed! Great for beginners with it’s detailed instructions and photos of each step. Advanced users can taking advantage of the Arduino integration, control voltage in and out, or just bend it like crazy!
