Kitty cot, window cat perch
One of our readers sent us a link to this commercial product, the Kitty Cot, a cat window perch, and writes: Window + suction cups + cloth + PVC = So MAKE-able. Kitty Cot: World’s Best Cat Perch
DIY Projects
Light-based Arduino-powered player piano
Gijs writes: This sequencer scans images, and plays the image as midi notes. It uses LDRs to measure the gray-scale of specific point of a image, and triggers midi notes from a selected threshold. When the threshold is reached the velocity will be set by the darkness at that point. the darker point the higher […]
English girls Arduin-ify plush like nobody’s business
I’m incredibly impressed with this video of a few English youngsters hacking together some Arduino + plush toys to make their imagined scenarios. Peter Kirn put it best when it wrote about it on Create Digital Motion: Media artists and design houses around the world: you’ve got nothing on this group of eight to eleven-year […]
How-To: Ratchet noise maker
Instructables user eqqman made this ratchet noisemaker, also known as a “gragger,” used in the celebtration of Purim.
Wireless power
As the effort to save Wardenclyffe continues, I thought this Instructables on Wireless Power an appropriate real world example of the shear awesomeness and audacity of the late Nicola Tesla’s vision.
Creating solutions – SolarAid
SolarAid – 100 People – Brave Mhouie from Solar Aid on Vimeo. SolarAid is a Non Governmental Organization dedicated to bringing the power of the sun to people living in places that are just simply beyond the reach of such modern technologies as the electric grid. Their website has a wealth of information about solar […]
Gav’s electric car
Gav caught the EV bug. He also caught the video bug, and made a bunch of great videos of his process to convert his glider to an EV. During the next few months I’ll be converting an old gas powered car to run on clean, cheap electricity. It’s a serious learning curve for me but […]