Maker Faire is coming up, if you’re traveling on planes to the event, keep all this in mind. I realize just by posting this it will cause some “passionate” debate – but I think there’s value in talking about this so we can all work together and travel without too many problems.
I really dig SiliconFarmer’s detailed instructions on how to automate a chicken coop door. It uses a windshield wiper motor and a custom-designed Arduino shield to control it. Schematics and lots of deets on the project page. [thanks, Akiba!]
A very old idea, of course, but nonetheless awesome, and very well executed, in this case, by Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre, whose Outriders series includes deer, moose, hare, sasquatch, kodiak bear, and barefoot homo sapiens shoes. [via nerdstink] Maskull Lasserre – Outliers More:Werewolf Stilts
If you’re waiting for delivery on a Raspberry Pi and are eager to learn what it’ll take to program it, Element-14, one of the distributors of the highly anticipated credit card-sized computer, will be broadcasting a webinar this morning that you’ll be interested in.
ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang created a game called Hand Breaking Bricks. Rather than use a standard interface for their game, they decided to take on the challenge of using gestural control.
Alex at Tinkerlog helped build this clever fundraising machine that takes a 2-Euro coin on a ride. In January Kolle Rebbe, a German agency, asked if I could help them with their project. The idea was to have an interactive ad poster to collect money for Misereor, a german relief organization. The campaign is named […]
MacGyvering nurses and Legos are helping to create MEDIKits for better health care.
