The idea of adorning oneself with glowing bits has been around forever, but instead of smearing ourselves with phosphorescent jellyfish or placing fireflies in ears like some uncivilized cavemen we went for simple LED earrings. We made a build that involves a simple slow-scroll RGB LED and a few reflective bits to bounce that pretty […]
Wednesday Links: Ballet, Draw-bots and K...
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November 19, 2014
Yet another selection of hand-picked links from all over the interwebs:
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Visualizing Ballet .. using Lilypad Arduino. Looks beautiful, produces drawing-like results and helps dancers to trace their movements for necessary feedback. (Via Arduino blog) |
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Tiny CNC-bot Beautiful little Piccolo, in it's second incarnation (first one was all clear acrylic). |
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3D printed Katana Case Is it katanas that make 3d printing better, or 3d printing makes katanas better? Either way it works. (Via Designboom) |
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MIDI Tine Organ This not a random set of words, it will make sense if you read the article. (Via Hackaday) |
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Spine and Cellphones These cell phones! They are the ultimate evil! (Via Geek.com) |
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Project Mon(Tues)day: Pinewood Lowrider
Jerome, our squiggly-bearded intern from many moons ago that created the BeetleBot, just pointed us towards this totally pimpin' pinewood derby car. The author from sliptonic.com shows how he made his sweet lowrider with hydaulic(esque) action by using a small micro-servo for each wheel, an Ardweeny for brains, and a 9V battery for power. The […]
New Product: Fosshape, Wonderflex and Bu...
Mini-360 DC-DC Buck converter $3.70 Super compact and capable, this DC-DC buck converter can knock down a voltage from 23V to as low as 1V with up to 95% efficiency. Wonderflex Heat-activated Composite Plastic Sheet $79.00 This is a heat-activated, formable polyester plastic sheet that is very popular in making prop armour and other rigid […]
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