MapBag

MapBag, a LilyPad Arduino-based GPS vibration pointer. Small phone vibration motors built into the chest strap and back always point the way for north. Compass without the hassle.

North Paw

"North Paw  is an anklet that tells the wearer which way is North. The anklet holds eight cellphone vibrator motors around your ankle. A control unit senses magnetic north and turns on and off the motors. At any given time only one motor is on and this motor is the closest to North. The skin senses the vibration, and the wearer’s brain learns to associate the vibration with direction, giving the wearer an intuitive sense of which way is North. Most people “get it” mere seconds after putting it on, and can then reliably point north when asked."

More inner-vations

http://en.dawanda.com/shop/kawede

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Todo

Learn to code malicious printer programme

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Minimal bike basket

Wooden settlers of catan sets

from Instructables

and BoardGameGeek

Its a puppet!!

Hurrah!

Admiral Sackbar Hand Puppet




But is it a viable alternative to a £200 lightsaber?

Sloooow Friday

So slow that i started tinkering with windows script files
Managed to automate logging in to programs that ask for a password at start up. It does mean the pw is kept in the script, but saves a whole 3 seconds! 

<package>
<job id="vbs">
<script language="VBScript">
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.run """C:/""", 3 *** change C:/ to directory of program***
WScript.Sleep 100
WshShell.AppActivate "" ***name of prompt window ***
WScript.Sleep 100
WshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}" *** tabs to the password field - login ID stored***
WshShell.SendKeys "PW" ***change PW to your password ***
WScript.Sleep 100
WshShell.SendKeys "~"
WScript.Sleep 100
</script>
</job>
</package>

3 seconds, 5 times a day, 20 times a month does not add up to the time it took to work out how to do it...

MSDN is useful

Long exposure Pinhole photography

from the SolargraphyGallery

Six month exposures directly onto darkroom paper tracking the sun's path.
Nice nice easy to follow How-To here.

new house.. potentially a small room... Contact paper to the rescue!

Chicken!

Light painting with insects

@ Photojojo

Micro controller stair lighting

something similar here too. With a kit.

cloak begone

ohwell!
better put something interesting up... :)

My camera is due back from the menders after getting its lens straightened, so been looking at photography things again - some nice GIFs at Jamie Martinez' site

brightlightbrightlight.com

Adirondack chair

Building the shed out of reclaimed windows and pallets has got me thinkin