Kathleen of Grosgrain Fabulous makes beautiful clothing for her daughters, takes wonderful photos of them modeling and then gives the clothing away. I have no idea why she gives them away, but I love the clothes and her generosity.
This garden railroad modeler built a morse code signaling beacon for his layout driven by a Picaxe 08M. He shows you how to design it to either flash or sound out your desired messages. The builder also updated he article a few years back with a more hardware-friendly Microchip 16F684 PIC processor. Morse Code Beacon
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Bzupke and his son made this amazing steerable blimp using the LEGO RCX. via NXT Step Using an RCX, 3 Motors, the Infrared Remote, Large trash bags, and lots of helium, my son and I created a steerable blimp. Two of the motors controlled propellers (made from a LEGO propeller with larger blades made out […]
Tim (BlueToothKiwi) at NXT Step blog says there is a new version of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 – it’s designed to work with several robot vendors including LEGO Mindstorms and iRobot. The free download is here.
I had the pleasure of being a guest again on Bay Area Backroads with host Doug McConnell. Check out this segment , “Do It Yourself 4 Kids“, where I cover some great kid craft places in the Bay Area (there are links on the right if you scroll down the page). The first segment I […]
In response to our high power rocket post, Ken Denmead of GeekDad points us to coverage on their blog of the Rocket Mavericks event, with some awesome pics. The first one above is a time-lapsed night photo. The author of the piece, Steve Jurvetson, writes: …the motor failed, and broke the rocket in two, but […]
