There is no point to this really, but the open handle makes me think that it would be really useful to scoop and funnel grain into small containers. I keep coming back to this image going that would be useful for beer or feeding chickens or ... really not much at all.
Oh make and the things you show me that I don't have time to build. Adult go karts? Yes, adult go karts that look like old timey hot rods.
I fancy myself a bit of an artist, and really identify with what the artist featured in this profile says about not yet finding that thing that clicks. I like some of the mediums that I've worked with, and have aspirations of doing something really interesting with paint, prose, electronics and wood, but I haven't found that thing yet. I'm an artist in search of his medium.
Via Makeblog
I remember from my childhood having a Rock Tumbler
During the course of finding a tumbler on Amazon, and reading reviews about tumblers I remembered my own experience and am now sad that everything from my childhood must have actually been really lame. I'm almost afraid to watch an episode of He Man or god help me The Snorks (oh shit I did just watch an episode there is not god) or any other show that I was obsessed with as a child.
If you're a fan of mythbusters I think you will appreciate this Ted Talk by Adam Savage. Make posted a great little video for the world to see and I think most people can appreciate a little science peptalk.
So yeah, I wrote about app inventor a little while ago, and have even gotten as serious as installing ubuntu on a laptop so that I could get started with it and, lo and behold Make let me know it's open for all!
So basically all excuses for making android apps has been removed, go check it out and let me know if you make anything amazing!
This came from Make Magazine's blog
I cannot remember where I first heard about Make the O'reilly backed magazine for tinkerers, but I was excited about subscribing. The magazine started off pretty amazing, but after a few issues I noticed way too many Knitting and sewing projects. It was to my great delight that they made a zine that was dedicated to those type of "crafty" projects that didn't appeal to me as making anything. Still the zine suffers from the challenges of all print media, no linking, video or other interactive content. I subscribe to the zine still, but I think the blog is much better; especially lately. They seem to have hit their stride and attracted several great minds to there group and are now showing amazing incremental projects that can help get bigger projects going. The articles about variable power supply design for a breadboard, and articles on how to protect power supplies are they type of bootstrapping articles that can help people with an interest in electronics, but aren't sure where to start get started.
They have articles about how to pick a microcontroller and even how to get started in circuit design, in all none of this has been covered in the zine, and I don't know that it would be worth printing or nearly as good printed. The richness of the content on the blog is available to anyone and that is the way I think it should be, but the quality of the blog is starting to make the zine feel a little like fluff.
I have long had a soft spot in my heart for the Chumby, but just couldn't bring myself to part with my hard earned dollars for the little guy. Really ever since Make featured it a while ago. I loved the idea, it was an interesting toy, but I just couldn't seem to find a use for it.
Enter the recently saved from death Pandora and you have found the killer app for the iPhoneless. Pandora on Chumby = love.
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