We have all seen the Popsicle stick bridges that can hold some heavy weights. This cardboard tube bridge takes bridge building to the next level! “Weighing 7.5 tonnes, the bridge is made from 281 cardboard tubes, each 11.5 centimetres (four inches) across and 11.9 millimetres thick. The steps are recycled paper and plastic and the foundations wooden boxes packed with sand. Balloons filled with 1.5 tonnes of water were used
Click To Play Phil Torrone from Make Magazine and Limor Fried from Adafruit Industries presented a fantastic keynote at OSCON (O’Reilly Open Source Convention). The video is about an hour long but it is worth it. Here are some links to a few item mentioned. RepRap – 3D Printer WRT54G – Linksys Router Chumby Botanicalls Open Prosthetics Project Arduino Roomba Make Store “Open source hardware is a term slowly
This steam punk watch is functional and is guaranteed to attract some attention. It looks like you may only want to wear it for a few hours at a time though… Thanks Toshiki
Aleksei Stevens has created SoundBall, a ball that can detect if it is being spun or kicked, it then plays sounds depending on what just happened. I can see this being great fun for kids, also why not install an accelerometer in the soccer ball that is used for TV games and display how hard the ball was kicked? Via: Crave
Sorry for the delay in selecting and announcing the winner of the comment contest. The winner of the ThinkGeek gift certificate is Mr. Maigo, comment #4 on the USB Controlled Traffic Light Status Indicator article. Congratulation on winning Mr. Maigo and thanks to all who participated. “ThinkGeek started as an idea. A simple idea to create and sell stuff that would appeal to the thousands of people out there who
Morte Moya has created some neat NES gadgets. First he created an MP3 player from a NES controller. The next logical step was to make a speaker system from a NES game cartridge. What could be next? Video after the jump. “Some of you may have seen my NES Controller MP3 player. This is a companion project for it. I sometimes like to sit around and listen to music so
Congratulation to winner of the last contest. The prize this week is a mini tripod, have fun snapping pictures of your latest hack with it. 🙂 This contest will run for this weekend only (July 28 – 29, 2007) . To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an
