Interesting piece on AfriGadget about mobile phone hacking in rural Africa: One of the more interesting innovations is the development of a dual SIM card hack so that users can access multiple carriers. This product has two SIM card slots in a single phone – primarily to support price sensitive/prudent consumers who wish to optimise […]
Wow, lots of Maker-type events going on in the NY tri-state metro area, Marco writes in… Miwa Koizumi and Marco Scoffier have been invited by Socrates Sculpture Park to help organize a day of making kites from scratch using recycled shopping bags. We would love to get a lot of makers out to riff on […]
These floating globes called “Bubble Bobbles” have an embedded tri-color LED that changes its color based on the tilt of the globe. Meant to be placed in a lake or a pool, every passing gust of wind or disturbance in the water causing a resulting color change. Bubble Bobble, [via]
These students came up with a great solution for expanding their wireless network. Apparently there wasn’t any power source available for the network repeater, so they build a wind turbine. These should be on every rooftop, in every city. Dan built the charging circuit himself. Essentially the windmill recharges two 12V batteries and the circuit […]
The green keeps on coming today – this San Francisco disposal company has its own sculpture park featuring work constructed from their main area of business – The Sculpture Garden at SF Recycling & Disposal is — as far as we know — the only art park located at a garbage company. The garden is […]
Decor 8 links to this tutorial by Sweet Jessie showing how to make a fabric-covered corkboard in an embroidery hoop. What a great place to pin up your crafty inspirations!
Windell, over at EMS Labs, takes a break from experimenting with hardware to play with his food, geeking out over the strange and cool properties of the Nelumbo Nucifera, also known as the Sacred Lotus (amongst other names): Any plant fiber running down the length of the rhizome would be trimmed down to an inch […]
