Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Just in time for the wintry weekend, a site that can keep you amused for days! Just stock up on paper before you get snowed in.
The Mission of the museum is to inspire everyone to greater heights, no matter what they choose. If this much variation and grace can come from a simple piece of paper, imagine what you can do!
The curator says that he is going ot add my ‘build a glider from a fast food container‘ project. Neat!
Awards have been given out by Japan’s Ministry of Economics and Trade Industry for the top 10 robots in the area of service, industrial, civil, and small to medium sized venture robots.
It’s easy to see why Japan has given out these awards. Japan has a pretty low birth rate and their citizens are living longer and longer so it makes sense to build robots that will assist the elderly. I’m all for it, as the technology advances more and more of it will trickle down to everyday tasks. I for one hope that robotic fueling stations for cars become common. It might force car makers to establish a standard fuel port for cars but I think that would be a small concession for the convenience and environmental benefits such a system would create.
I saw a gob of the contenders at the 2006 NextFest in New York last September, and I can say that the Paro robot seals are going to be a big hit when they come across to the US. From the reactions of the kids that were interacting with them I’m sure that pediatric hospitals will be buying some of them.
KHR-2HV robots are cool just because they walk like humans but they are low enough in price that you could see a few being used in a school setting to teach robotics.
Go follow the link and see who took home the top award.
[via MAKE]
It’s true, having a good tripod head can save you a lot of headaches but normally it costs quite a bit to buy one. The only solution is to build your own!
There’s some amazing software out there for panoramic photography. Various software packages warp, stitch and blend sequences of photos so that they (ideally) look like one big, high-resolution, panoramic shot. However, getting these shots to turn out perfectly isn’t easy when hand holding your camera or using a normal tripod, especially when some parts of the image are fairly close to the lens. Panoramic tripods can cost hundreds of dollars, but making your own isn’t that hard. Even better, it’s dirt cheap.
This is a beautiful take on a regular old alarm clock. It should inspire people to look under the covers and cases for the inner beauty that lurks within (ooo, impressive, eh?).
Check out the video, you can see the light inside.
Ahh, now this is a cool use for a hollowed out light bulb.
Hey great thread. I forget how I stumbled across it, but looking through the page, I became inspired to make something of my own from an old lightbulb. It’s kind of a retro-Victoriana mad scientist contraption.
I like the clever use of PC jumpers. Very cool.
All I can say is wow… This is a gold mine of information for anyone that has old cameras or just like to look.