From a life of recurring knee injuries, I’ve got a closet full of crutches. They’re useless as soon as I’m ambulatory, so I’ve been poking around for reuse projects. Flip those crutches upside down and you’ve got a snazzy pair of crutch stilts! And, as one commenter points out, if you injure yourself trying them […]
Hack Factory member Mike Hord built a motion-sensing widget for a local pizzeria’s restrooms — for the purpose of annoying them while they “rest”. Recently I was approached by an architecture/design firm to help with an electronic install at a client site. The client had requested a system that interacts with users in the bathroom- […]
Chris Yates‘ puzzle entitled “Depths” uses 407 pieces, built up in layers to fill the pond-like base. Many more photos illuminate his build process over on Flickr. [Thanks, Sam!]
Fluid Dress 2.0! Lovely video of blacklight-reactive fluid being pumped through the 600 ft of plastic tubing comprising this dress by Casual Profanity. We saw an earlier prototype at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009.
Wires, wires everywhere. I don’t like looking at wires, wires everywhere. Even though I have a USB hub, it’s a bit of an eyesore sitting on top of my desk, plugged into devices up top, and my computer down below. I decided it was time to embed the hub directly into the surface of the desk. Using the Dremel Multi-Max to plunge-cut the wood desktop, I fit the USB hub into the desk, and attached the hub to the underside using brackets. It’s now stable, stylish, and out of the way.
Weigh your hive! Trerick writes: There is currently a NASA-sponsored nation-wide research project that asks volunteer beekeepers to take daily weight measurements of their bee hives. The data is used to estimate when nectar flows begin in order to answer how changing climate effects honey bees. The goal is to build an accurate, electronic bee […]
Last year we posted about Mike Sheldrake’s stunning cardboard-ribbed surfboards, and, well, now he’s posted files on Thingiverse so you can build your own! He writes: The primary purpose of publishing these files is to enable the lowest levels of the board-building ecosystem (where I reside) to experiment with building these boards at the lowest […]
