Here’s a neat instructable by user sjolly which combines compact fluorescent light bulbs with a modular lampshade design. He writes: We recently installed new compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) in our workspace. They use less energy and last longer, but they’re painfully bright…so I adapted Dan’s Instructable for CFLs using heat resistant photo gels. This […]
This is the perfect project for all those people who love Twitter. As if sending Tweets about every aspect of your life wasn’t enough, now your house can join the fun. It looks like a fairly easy project to implement, and a lot of fun too! You could adapt this project to Tweet almost anything. […]
Hack-a-Day has a how-to piece on modifying/improving/circuit bending the ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs. How-To: Hack a ThingamaKIT More: Retro ThingamaHat ThingamaHat ThingamaKIT ThingamaKIT build photos
This tutorial is meant for computer cases, but could be applied to lots of things. Learn to get a mirror finish from the mnpctech website. Via Core77.
Dorkbot Austin #16 is this Thursday, and it’s full of steampunk wearable robotic wonders: Jason Delaney’s steampunk (literally) homebrew still that can be used to make alcohol, herbal oils, purify water, etc. Chase Hammock’s touchscreen driven wearable multimedia computer Adam Iseman’s Ard-e, a sub-$100 robotics platform (Image courtesy Adrian Ward) We’re at Cafe Mundi, 8pm […]
Check out this wooden clock that’s manually adjusted to reflect the current time. It’s an art piece by Mark Formanek in collaboration with Datenstrudel. Via VVORK.
Bill Beaty documents his recipe for levitating neodymium magnets using two rotating coppers tubes. Note: The aptly named “Fantastically Dangerous Mechanical MagLev” could indeed seriously injure a person (you’ll notice Bill uses a clear plastic covering over the tubes to prevent the aforementioned nastiness) – While working on science museum exhibits in 1990 I came […]
