Rich Faulhaber wanted enough sand-polished “beach glass” or “sea glass” (Wikipedia) to cover a walkway, and didn’t want to spend the rest of his life combing beaches for it. So he figured out how to make his own knock-off version. [via Boing Boing]
We were thrilled by the response we got to our Green Project Contest, part of GE’s ecomagination. We ended up with 83 projects posted, 6634 votes, and many tweets and FB shares. There were a lot of really interesting, innovative, and fun entries, from re-webbing aluminum lawn chair frames with old belts, to a building […]
From reddit user jabo27. [via Geekologie]
In case you missed it, be sure to check out Betz White‘s charmingly easy hip huggie tutorial. It’s a perfect project now that the holidays are over; think of it as a well-deserved present to yourself. I love the idea of a quick and easy, warm and cozy skirt made from a reused felted wool […]
Anthony Pego, aka Reddit user pegothejerk, says, “I built a robot dresser out of end table scraps I found on the side of the road. My nephew is going to freak.”
Pictures of the construction process reveal that the dresser seems, actually, to be mostly built from stock lumber, with the found object serving as base, frame, and/or inspiration. [Thanks, Marc!]
We covered the work of Eric Strebel in the lead-up to Maker Faire Detroit. He contributed to our “Making Detroit” series. Now he and partner Jim Nogarian have brought their design for the Solar Vox personal USB solar charger to Kickstarter. They’re looking for $35,000 in funding to bring their product to market. Solar Vox […]
My new Kinect is a very cool toy, but it was not lost on me, as I was plugging it in, that I’d given the Microsoft hive-mind a pretty sophisticated set of eyes and ears onto my living room. Sure, I suppose I could only plug it in when I’m using it, but I’m kind of a neat freak about my entertainment center wiring and I don’t want to be digging the Xbox out every time I decide I want certain privacy. Some kind of lens-cap arrangement seemed the easiest solution, and making it out of the foam that the Kinect came packed in avoids the danger of picking some material that might scratch the device or otherwise be incompatible with it over the long term.
