The Everingham Rotating House must be the geekiest house I have ever seem (I love it). When you get tired of the view from the living room just press a button and rotate the house to change the view. Or when the sun is glaring on the TV instead of closing the blinds you could just rotate out of the sun! “The Everingham rotating house is a 24-metre diameter octagon
Electric go karts seem to be getting more popular these days, the Felixtimlock go kart is one of the fastest ones I have seen so far. There is a description video of the kart after the jump.
Last weeks weekend contest was a great success. This week there will be two items given away to two lucky winners. Giveaway item 1 is a graphic LCD module, thanks to David from uC Hobby for providing this module! Giveaway item 2 is another camera tripod. This contest will run for this weekend only (April 20 – 22, 2007) . To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an
If you are lucky enough to have an extra roomba kicking around why not mod it to shoot peoples feet. 🙂 “I own a Discovery roomba and use it in the never ending battle against dog hair. I love it as it does an amazing job at sweeping up not only dog hair but all sorts of dirt and dust. I didn’t want to take the chance of killing it
Don’t throw away your old HP ink-jet printer, Seyed Bidoki has developed a way to print electronic circuits with it. “A desktop printer loaded with a silver salt solution and vitamin C has been used to produce electronic circuits. The UK researchers behind the feat say their experimental device could pave the way for safer and cheaper electronics manufacturing. PhD student Seyed Bidoki loaded a standard Hewlett Packard ink-jet printer
Ferrofluid is cool stuff, Sachiko Kodama and Yasushi Miyajima have built a spiral that demonstrates the beauty of the liquid. Video after the jump. “Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are
Next time one of your gadgets breaks don’t toss it in the trash, engineer and construct a housing so that it can’t break again. At least that is what Russell Jones, an engineering student from New Jersey did! “The aim of this project was fairly straight forward. The keychain ring on my Corsair 1GB Flash Voyager USB drive from Newegg broke, which left the poor thing prone to be left
