RFID peripheral round up @ Touch… via Beyond the Beyond. Pictured above, RFID wine bottle from ThingM (WineM). Plug and play RFID-reading USB peripherals are all the rage, as indicated by a stream of recent product announcements. These readers plug into a PC and make various things happen when they are touched with an RFID […]
Make was a sponsor of a wonderful event called the Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa, Calif, which took place practically in our own back yard. Bringing together some of the makers from the Bay Area Maker Faire, and taking steampunk to the public in a new way, the Handcar Regatta used a railway that hasn’t […]
Ponoco has a new service where you can hand-draw something, upload a photo of the drawing, and get a “real life product” of your drawing back (in various materials you can select). Photomake [via Boing Boing]
This Sunday, September 28, Erasmus P. Kitty will play host to the most splendorous Great West & Railroad Square Handcar Regatta & Exposition of Mechanical and Artistic Wonders, aka The Handcar Regatta. The good doctor promises fun & frolic, song & dance, grace & beauty, and wonderful eccentricities. And free balloons for the kids! (Okay, […]
I know 2 people who live in shipping containers and they seem to really like it… “Shipping containers could be ‘dream’ homes for thousands” It was a side trip through a destitute, ramshackle neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that detoured Brian McCarthy from building houses in Albuquerque to an idea to offer the very poor […]
Mollie got a great anniversary present! via Fabbaloo. Adam came home with my anniversary gift. Now, some people might get a necklace or a pair of earrings for an anniversary, but not me. I got a 3D mouse brain. I am so psyched. He designed it based on sections and pictures he found online, made […]
This is part 8 of an ~8-part series I’m doing on bike-powered devices. If you’ve got a link to another device that should be included or a better-documented version of any of these, comment below. I learned about most of these devices through the old-news Innovate or Die contest. Wow: go pedals. I’m in awe […]
