Mike Krumpus of Nootropic Design (and creator of the Video Experimenter Shield which is the heart of Matt Richardson’s Enough Already hack) is at it again with his Defusable Clock: I thought it would be fun to build an alarm clock that looks just like the type of bomb that we always see in Hollywood […]
Your smartphone is no DSLR, but chances are it’s the camera you’re carrying with you almost everywhere you go. We’ve seen many DIY smartphone tripod mounts, some clever, some not so much. The Glif being a prime example of a clever design. Of course there’s more than one way to do it, so it was just a matter of time before something just a clever came along. The Orbit is a swiveling smartphone suction mount in the final stages of development, and from the looks of it, seems to be a pretty versatile mounting device.
This week’s Flickr pool roundup includes some sweet Halo props, impressive amateur astrophotography, a Viking helmet with a fiber-optic mohawk, and more! Check it out!
This charming Knock Clock was made by three Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design students for a 48-hour design project. When you knock on the top of this minimalistic wooden box, it knocks back the time of day (to the nearest quarter hour). It even has a basic alarm function, which—naturally—is set by knocking as well. [via Adafruit]
Alex Weber of Hamburg created this cool drawbot (Der Kritzler means “the Scribbler”) that lays down ink directly on a window, allowing passers-by to groove on the robot’s work from outside.
At FOO Camp 2011, Dr. Ruth Schulz from University of Queensland discusses Lingodroids, robots that can generate their own language that allows them to communicate with each other.
Earlier this week I was glancing over all our existing Weekend Projects to take some notes, and found myself asking, “What do these projects have in common?” I then found myself juxtaposing images from each project to do a quick visual compare-and-contrast. Clockwise from the top-right, that’s Floating Glow Display, Electronic Whack-a-Mole Game, USB Webcam Microscope, and Add Volume, Jack.
