Packing up for the beach today (yay!), I saw this link on Dinosaurs and Robots to Kevin Kelly’s blog, to a piece about sea glass (which we used to call “beach glass”). Kevin writes: A name yields knowledge. When I got home looked up sea glass. Aha! There are books. There are collectors. There’s a […]
Congrats to Brady, Bre and O’Reilly on an excellent night, Ignite NYC was a ton of fun – especially the soldering competition. Here’s all the action in a bite sizing video minute. Go Glen!
Here’s an Instructable on how to replace the button cell battery on a Nike+ receiver for as little as the CR2032 battery costs you. To get a replacement receiver costs $20. Replace battery in Nike+ receiver for under $5 [via Lifehacker]
NYTimes article about LED lighting, it’s interesting that Philips is pretty much only betting on one horse… The problem, though, is the price. A standard 60-watt incandescent usually costs less than $1. An equivalent compact fluorescent is about $2. But in Europe this September, Philips, the Dutch company dealing in consumer electronics, health care machines […]
Here’s an Instructable and video on Furoshiki, the Japanese art of cloth-folding to make various bags, carry-alls, and sacks. Paper, Plastic, or Furoshiki?
The “Rug-Bug BEAM Photovore” by Ken Hill is an environmentally aware photovore robotic bug that rolls, creates chirping sounds in response to light levels, and can be charged with solar cells. The bot runs from a pair of 74ACT139 ICs to control two Hankscraft gear motors from pulsed signals and a dual 556 timer IC. […]
Well, they could use it for power. Physorg writes that Argentine scientists are capturing cow farts in plastic backpacks to try to understand the impact it has on global warming. They think that “30% of Argentina’s total greenhouse gases could be generated by cattle.” They’re experimenting with feeding clover and alfalfa instead of grain – […]
