MOTO Labs will be unveiling their “DIY Android Home Energy Monitor” today at Maker Faire. MOTO’s Daniell Hebert will be giving a talk, “Android Beyond the Phone,” at 3:30pm Sunday, on the main stage. The MOTO Labs booth is 113 in Expo Hall. So what is the AHEM? The MOTO DIY Android Home Energy Monitor […]
We eat a lot of cereal in our house, which results in loads of boxes being sent out for recycling. There is an abundance of cool cereal box crafts on the Internet, many of which we’ve featured here, but this one is a favorite for me. My kids are always wanting to play on my […]
As we’ve mentioned here before, Maker Faire Africa is an unofficial Maker Faire (that we’ve given our blessing to). It’s taking place on August 13-15 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Accra, Ghana. Our pals over at Afrigadget and Afromusing are trying to get people to spread the word on […]
By way of the Evil Mad Scientist Labs’ monthly Linkdump come these wonderful examples of beehive art, built by the bees themselves, with a little help from a scaffolding of wire and hive frames, constructed by the artist/beekeeper, which the bees then build out with honeycomb. Nifty. Beeswax art and design
AMP Motor Works is a company set up to convert the mass produced Saturn Sky to an Electric Vehicle. AMP claims that the Sky EV gets 125 miles per gallon equivalent fuel economy based on how much energy it takes to charge the batteries. At current energy prices, this will cost you around 3 cents […]
[Photo from AIDG on Flickr] XelaTeco is an organization that helps gather and distribute technologies in the communities of Guatemala. Xeni Jardin covered the story with photos and audio on NPR’s Day to Day. Xela Teco builds environmentally friendly technology that can be used to bring survival basics to poverty-stricken villages in the Mayan highlands: […]
[Photo from Connors934 on Flickr] For this final installment of our Make: Green series, we look at a promising technology for generating electricity: wind turbines. A wind turbine consists of a propeller, a generator, and either an inverter or storage system. The propeller is essentially two or more airfoils attached to a hub. When the […]
