Maker Pro News: Lily Robotics Crashes, HAX Heats Up, and More
Lily Robotics’ “follow me” -style drone doesn’t deliver, how one maker built a DIY Mars rover that blew away the competition, and more.
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From Aerospace to Weaving, Houston Mini Maker Faire Is an Inventors’ Paradise
Houston Mini Maker Faire attendees had a chance to create scientific creatures, assemble a clock, take a peek through augmented reality, and much more.
Thomas Edison Honored in Shinto Ritual
My friend, and HacDC cohort, Katie Bechtold, who’s been living in Japan of late, posted this item to her Flickr photostream: Ema are small wooden plaques on which Shinto worshippers write their prayers or wishes. Thomas Edison used bamboo from the area around this shrine as a filament for his first light bulbs, and nowadays […]
Easy-thread sewing needle
You know, as long as human beings have been squinting and poking at the tiny eyes of sewing needles, it’s pretty amazing that it’s taken so long for some clever inventor to address the problem. These spiral eye sewing needles are available direct from their inventor, Pam Turner of Minnesota. I’ve never used one, but the user feedback I hear echoing through the tubes is uniformly positive.
Crumb-disposing cutting board
Via the always-entertaining There, I Fixed It.
HeatSource Invention from L-MIT
Another Make: television-produced video highlights an invention called HeatSource. Using paraffin wax stored in plastic chambers to store heat, HeatSource was created by students for the MIT IDEAS competition.
Braille Labeler from the MIT IDEAS Competition
A group of MIT students set out to invent a Braille labeler for the MIT IDEAS Competition. Along the way they seemed to grasp a few cornerstones of invention: learning from failures, knowing your customer base and pursuing your ideas.
