Jamoflage made this incredible pitch bending thumb piano! It sounds kind of like a steel guitar when it’s plucked, then kind of like twisted steel drums. And you can change out the blades. Totally cool. Via Oddstrument Collection
Full Circle has the perfect craft ideas for kids to enjoy nature and the great outdoors. Gather up some simple household supplies the next time you head out to make some cool looking wilding sticks and nature bracelets. [ via Kids Craft Weekly ]
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.
