DiResta: Brownstone Birdhouse
The Brownstone Birdhouse is an old idea from my notebook, with a brick pattern.
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The Perfection of Ferns
Ferns are one of the most structurally interesting plants on earth. Some are tiny with a a delicate, etherial frond. Others are enormous and leathery with a prehistoric look. I have always loved them, so much in fact, that when I made my bridal bouquet I used only ferns and not a single flower. Here […]
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Creepy crawling skeleton
DaveintheGrave shares the directions for making this creepy crawling skeleton. Here’s a link to the motor base and linkage, and here’s the putting-it-all-together part.
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iRobot’s robot mower patent
In Rodney Brooks’ recommended book Flesh and Machines, he talks about his disappointment over robot lawnmowers. That was five years ago, and little has changed in the field since then. It’s pretty much still the same robomowers with the same less-than-killer-app technologies. Brooks’ iRobot obviously is hoping to change that with their “Mowba” (let’s hope […]
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Lawnbott mows live on the web!
Sara sends word of live lawnbot video – Betsie the Lawnbott works tirelessy and streams(and twitters) video to the web all the while. Head on over to hang out in the Lawnbott chatroom and watch the grass … err not grow. – Lawnbott Live Is this what we’ll do all the time in the autonomous […]
Continue ReadingAutomatic closing gates with Picaxe controller
From HackedGadgets: Here is an interesting build of some Automatic Closing Gates that was made for this wooden gate. It was built out of necessity, the builder had a child that he did not want running onto the road. The motor and gearbox is controlled using a Picaxe Microcontroller. Activation of the gate is done […]
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HOW TO – Backyard composter
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 […]
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