The Recycled Recumbent has been updated for 2008. It looks like a few other people have had success following the free plans. I really like how the plans have little notes to help you build a really nice Recycled Recumbent Bicycle.

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Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Here’s a tutorial by Maya from upstate New York for making party hats from newspaper and faux flowers! They look very festive and easy, great for a kid’s birthday party or just a summer picnic.

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Heads up NYC electronauts -

Ignite NYC: Soldering, Guerilla Knitting, & Bomb Shelters

The first Ignite NYC is going to happen 7/29 at M1-5. We are going to feature 16 speakers. Each speaker will get 20 slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds for a total of five-minutes. Ignite is free and open to the public — you’re on your own for drinks. We’re also going to be joined by Ignite co-creator, Bre Pettis. Bre is going to lead us in a creative soldering contest. RSVP at Upcoming or Facebook to let us know you are coming. The night will begin with:

7:00PM - Doors Open

7:30PM - NYC Soldering Championship:

With solder irons blazing, and the power of molten metal at their finger tips, New York City’s electricity enthusiasts and hardware hackers will connect components to complete circuits for the glory of being the fastest soldering gun in NYC.

On stage and under hot lights, contestants will complete an electronics kit in the shortest time possible while still maintaining the integrity of the circuit. Who will be New York City’s soldering champion? You’ll need to be there to find out!

To solder you’ll have to pre-register, but anyone can come enjoy the opening contest. After the contest, there will be:

8:00PM - Ignite Talks

• Tom Igoe - Physical Computing’s Greatest Hits (or Misses)

• Tony Bacigalupo - NYC’s Startup Scene: Where are the geeks?
• Jessica Bruder - How to be an Undercover Hooker (reprising her talk on taking an NYPD course)
• Karen McGrane - From Typing to Swiping: Interaction Design has come a long way!
• Rose White - Weird and wonderful knitting — graffiti and science and art combined!
• Audacia Ray - Porn as a front runner in technology innovations
• Charlie O’Donnell - Shaving your head: When to start, how to maintain, and to BIC or not to BIC?
• Charles Forman - How to date celebrichauns with founder fetish
• Natalie Jeremijenko - A bomb shelter for the climate crisis
• Pat Allan - So you’re a kick-arse coder…
• Joel Johnson - Indie Games: At Least They’re Free!

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RoboTurk is a great example of technology being used to help save lives. It uses Microsoft technology at the core to perform some very complex tasks.
"RobotTurk is a prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) equipped with a camera that is capable of streaming live video of disaster struck areas to ground command stations. The helicopter carries […]

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The most impressive part of this Lego NXT Rubik Cube Solver is that the NXT module does the computing that solves the cube! I wouldn’t have thought that would have been possible without having a PC do the calculations.
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Baccus61 has documented some of his cool DIY Laser Etching Projects. He makes etching an image on a round bottle simple!
After the jump are a few of my favorite videos he has created.
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This maker was fed up with the amount of noise his PC’s internal fans were making so he built a mod to control their speed with an automotive rheostat. Check out all of the intricate details on the link below.

Using an Automotive Rheostat for Fan Control

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Craftster user Frosted created this gorgeous daffodil cake using marshmallow fondant and gum paste flowers. Great job!

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Techcrunch announced they’re going to build a web tablet device & part II -

Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device. This all stems back from a conversation a few weeks ago when we were discussing the ultimate web browsing/cloud computing client hardware. The iPhone is nice but too small, and most laptops are over-powered for the task. With applications on the web most of us just need a web browser most of the time, so the ideal device would be a light-weight small tablet running nothing more than Firefox on a decent screen and with a WiFi connection.

In an effort to help get them going or at least kick off some conversations, I think they should look at Chumby. The open source Wi-Fi “bean bag computer”…. It doesn’t fit all the “specs” Techcrunch proposed, but it’s a good start. The $179 Chumby is linux based, can support a larger screen, is open source and a prototype could be developed. The team can get the source, schematics and part of Bunnie’s brain immediately.

I think the Nokia n810 internet tablet is also pretty close to what Techcrunch described (linux based, Skype, can run Firefox) - hardware is hard, good luck guys. If this were a MAKE project I’d suggest modding an EEPC and going from there…

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From the CRAFT Flickr pool: user gwendygay made this tutorial for a festive and useful mounting solution for artwork. Perfect for teachers, this magnetic art strip provides an easy way to hang rotating art displays without damaging the work itself.

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