This Pool Racer project is built on the 3pi. The Pololu 3pi robot is a complete, high-performance mobile platform featuring two micro metal gearmotors, five reflectance sensors, an 8×2 character LCD, a buzzer, and three user pushbuttons, all connected to a C-programmable ATmega168 microcontroller. Capable of speeds exceeding 3 feet per second, 3pi is a […]
After you’ve made that awesome super hero cape Rachel posted about today, complete the outfit with a super hero gadget. Scenes from Superland shows you how to make these crafty gadgets by using old Jello boxes. [ via The Crafty Crow ]
Regina of Creative Kismet shares how to make these adorable super easy super hero capes for kids. What I love most is that the blank applique circle on the cape where kids can customize their own super hero emblem. Regina made these capes for her son’s recent super hero birthday, and guests decorated their capes […]
At the last Phoenix DIY meeting, Lisa Jacobs ran a paper making workshop. We learned how to use recycled office paper as the base for art papers, to which we added colored napkins for pigment and dried flowers, glitter, conductive thread, and many others as “inclusions,” the things that jazz up the paper inside and […]
Diane at CraftyPod and her partner, Katin Imes, created this fantastic puppet theater for Katin’s nephew. They started with a cardboard box base, and covered it in layers of duct tape to hide the graphics printed on the box. There are some fantastic little engineering bits that you have to read about to believe, and […]
A monstrous testament to resourcefulness and the valor of the human spirit, rendered in the most modest toy, made of plastic bottles, rusty nails, and bits of wire. Both sort of heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. Taken in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. Toy Tractor from Recycled Plastic
Here’s a sweet piece with a dad and his two daughters working with a drawbot they made from yogurt cups, DC motors, and art pens. They made some really nice wrapping paper. What a great thing for kids to be able to declare: “We made robots and they drew the art on the paper your […]
