Artist and electronics hound Jon Cohrs made this tool for urban prospecting. He writes: The project, called the Urban Prospector, is basically a modified metal detector outfitted with a combustible gas sensor that can be built for under 100 dollars. By scanning the surface of your neighborhood, you will be able to determine pockets of […]
I really like Counting to a Billion by Che-Wei Wang. It uses an Arduino and a speech module to count up to 1 billion, and then it stops. The real question is, how long will it take? Will it even make it? I’m not sure, but it’s a cool experiment. Counting to a Billion is […]
Oliver Bishop Young has been converting dumpsters in the UK into more interesting things like a ping pong table, a marsh, and my favorite, this swimming pool. (Thanks, Matt!) More: Dumpster hot tub
Jimmie has this followup on his announcement for Maker Revolution in Boston this Saturday and Sunday: The event can pretty much be summed up as a two day extravaganza of makers, hackers, and artists getting together to share cool things they’ve made, and how to make them. There will be installation art pieces, workshops, and […]
Maker Revolution is an event put on by Willoughby and Baltic on April 25 and 26, 2009 in Boston Join Willoughby & Baltic April 25 & 26 for the Maker Revolution. As part of Cyberarts Boston, the two-day event will focus on do-it-yourself art and technology and will include art, performances, presentations and hands-on workshops. […]
Image from WEEE Man WEEE Man is a massive pile of technojunk brought out of the netherworld of the e-waste stream. As an educational project, the WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) Man site provides useful resources for teachers and students. Their overview is a good place to start on the big picture of the […]
Randy Sarafan made a chair that tweets his toots. Uses all the staples: Arduino, XBee, Python, Twitter. And it’s open source, check the Instructable!
