Here’s a how-to regarding the detection of volatile organic compounds using Arduino and a TGS2620 sensor – This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you program responses to) overall gas levels for a variety of nasties, including ethanol, methane, formaldehyde, and a bunch of other volatile organic compounds. No explanation as to how refraining from […]
Paul Freedman (aka Fossil Fool) will be providing musical entertainment at Maker Faire via human-powered bike-stage! In case you’re not up, Fossil Fool is a bike rapper – A bike rapper is like a regular rapper, but instead of showing up in a car and rapping about cars, I show up on bike, and rap […]
Ryan writes in with a helpful how-to – Well, it’s garden season again, which means it’s time to start composting. I meant to be composting throughout the winter, but a telephone pole fell on my old compost pile, and I’ve had absolutely no motivation to repair it. It wasn’t much of a pile anyways. As […]
I’ve seen many unwanted/discarded suitacases around my neighborhood – it’s tempting to salvage them, but I seldom have any good uses in mind. This portable seat design could work, provided the hinges are strong enough – Briefcase seat
These magnetic leaves are a pretty nice ways to turn your fridge into a virtual forest of sorts. Just be sure that you keep them away from your digital devices otherwise they might erase your data and send you back to prehistoric times. [via]
This is a great use for all those old CRT’s that are being replaced by LCD’s. I would love to work in an environment with lighting like this. Technoscrap is a project on reuse of electronic waste in architecture and interior design. From an investigation of visual qualities of mechanical / electronic waste and observation […]
2nd CHANCE Designs make all their products from recycled media that is found on the streets. I really like the fabric and lighting made from the insides of floppy disks. 2nd Chance Designs was born after a long reflection about living and designing today. We wanted to create something about today & tomorrow’s World, and […]
