I-Wei Huang @ Crabfu SteamWorks who we featured in MAKE 07 just sent his latest, a radio controlled Steam truck!- Link. Update: I-Wei just uploaded another video, him getting pulled on skateboard! – Link. Related: Made On Earth – Sample PDF and videos! – Link. Made On Earth – MAKE 07 (videos) – Link. Make […]
Garnet Hertz’s roach controlled bot is making the rounds around the web, here’s a really good video (that I haven’t seen) of it in action – Link. Related: Made on Earth – Reports from the world of backyard technology, including a cockroach-controlled robot, high altitude glider, student-built cyclotron, Vee 9 solar vehicle, robotic CD burner, […]
These farmers aren’t messing around, they are drag racing on completely tricked out tractors – [via] – Link (photo gallery).
Bruce Gardner has a galley of hikaru dorodango a Japanese schoolyard pastime where kids polish clumps of mud to create these amazing little nuggets of shiny – [via] – Link & how-to
The San Jose Museum of Art has a collection of globes with all sorts of info-graphics on them, here’s one with life expectancy – “Exploring how maps mediate between the known and the unknown, Ingo Gunther’s WorldProcessor presents more than 25 illuminated, modified globes to engage audiences into journeying among alternative worldviews, from “refugee currents” […]
Mrsuperpants made a nice chair for his home, from an ejector seat – “Ejector seat from a Jaguar aircraft bought off ebay about 18 months ago as a shell. Cleaned it up and laquered it to preserve the used look. Welded up a frame from scrap square tube to hang it on so it can […]
Victor writes – “Public Broadcast Cart is a shopping cart outfitted with a dynamic microphone, a mixer, an amplifier, six speakers, a miniFM transmitter and a laptop with a wireless card. The audio captured by the microphone on the cart is fed through the mixer to three different broadcast sources.” – Link. More: Build your […]
