Dec 30th, 2008
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Stair blog has amazing images of unusual and creatively designed staircases - check out the beautiful Lello Bookshope staircase in Portugal.Read more | Permalink | Comments |
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Dec 30th, 2008
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I’m really intrigued by this sculpture by James Angus called “Bicycles.” It’s as if the two bikes are being viewed in not-quite-working 3D vision. The construction just incredible. Via VVORK.
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Dec 30th, 2008
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This tiny dog robot kit by G-Robots looks like it will be lots of fun. I can’t find a place in North America that sells it yet though. I have no idea how they got the servo motors to move so fast! Have a look at the first video that was shot by Robot Watch […]
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Dec 30th, 2008
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Cousteau and the undersea world. Cameron and Titanic. And now, Joe Reinhardt and Mike Fields and the depths of Lake Moraine in upstate New York. Every summer, Reinhardt and brother-in-law Fields tackle a new DIY project at the family’s lakeside camp. In 2005, the pair built their own underwater ROV (remote observation vehicle) with two video cameras feeding live images to a shipboard laptop - all for about 100 bucks Making things is second nature for Reinhardt. 24, a computer tech in digital imaging. This time, he got to indulge his underwater fascination:”I always wanted to be a marine biologist,” says Reinhardt. “I love the water, and ships, and watching Discovery Channel with the real ROVs exploring the Titanic.” Reinhardt and Fields built their homebrew ROV’s frame out of PVC pipe, and its transparent camera housing out of scrap quarter-inch-thick acrylic tube from the local plastics supply (milled to watertight tolerances on a friend’s lathe). They joined the two with simple but strong carpenter’s ratchet clamps, The B&W video camera was $29 from Harbor Freight, complete with infrared LEOs for night vision. power supply, and 80 feet of RJll cable.
They scored a Chinese color “Spy-Cam” for $1 on eBay (plus $35 shipping), and ran its video signal up the audio wire in the RJll cable. After an embarrassing misfire with ballast tanks (”We put ‘em on top, so it sank upside down every time”), the explorers improvised a solution (”a big hunk of concrete and a bungee cord”) and lowered their ROV to the lake bottom to capture video of sunfish, perch, and muskie sporting in the wild. The rig proved watertight to 40 feet. This summer, they’re going deeper: their 2006 model has thrusters for true independent ROV mobility, using watertight 12VDC motors coupled to propellers by super-powerful neodymium magnets. It’ll be rated to 200 feel, good enough to dive quarries or wrecks on Lake Erie, Reinhardt says, James Cameron might want to check his rearview mirror.
From the column Made on Earth - MAKE 6, page 23 - Keith Hammond.
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Dec 30th, 2008
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The Matchbook shares her demo on turning matchboxes into adorable birdhouse ornaments.
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Dec 30th, 2008
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I’ve been collecting a bunch of paint chip sample cards recently (I’m planning to repaint our kitchen nook soon) and this gift tag project from A Spoonful of Sugar is going to be a great way for me to reuse those chips once I’ve settled on a paint color. [via WhipUp]
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Dec 30th, 2008
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Hanukkah started last night at sundown so here is a Happy Hanukkah from Bent Objects. Mmmm latkes.
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Dec 30th, 2008
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If you want everyone to know that you are a true geek then you need to purchase (or make) some of these cool Recycled PCB Ornaments. They look good and help the environment! Not sure why there are no components on the boards though unless they get the blanks from a circuit board manufacturing facility […]
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Dec 30th, 2008
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The Small Object shows us how to use wool felt and velcro to make these quick and easy coffee cup cozies.
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Dec 30th, 2008
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Knit! Knit like the wind! There’s still time to knit someone a scarf for a holiday gift if you’re fast. Yarn Harlot Stephanie Pearl-McPhee recently made a gorgeous, simple scarf with a really nice yarn - I made a lower-rent version using about 2 skeins of Cascade 220. I did a 2×2 rib over 38 stitches on size 10 needles. It’s a very easy holiday present and a somewhat hypnotic, therapeutic knit.
I also made this ribbed scarf - same yarn and needle size, but alternating rows of K3,P3, and K1,P1 - you have to cast on a multiple of six stitches. I don’t remember where I found this rib pattern (years ago!), but it’s simple and fast, with an interesting texture.
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