Boas ideias

...A começar por esta, que é minha, e também tenho direito, esta placa numérica pode servir para cegos mandarem parar os Autocarros, etc. que queiram, mas pode servir para de tudo um pouco...

É bom ver os nossos esforços apreciados:

BusStopper Pop-Up Segment Model

Segments pop up, they appear, pop down, they disappear.
Couldn't be simpler!
Cut the 3 Digits drawing, Bus2 02, on a thick material, and print the segments template, Bus2 01, on Cardboard, bending over the grey lines, and the middle of the black part. Rivet the holes, you got a Bus Stopper! 

http://www.ponoko.com/design-your-own/products/busstopper-pop-up-segment-model-8071#reviews

E temos esta ideia fantástica, do excelente site L'air du bois, que tal um Banco de jardim, que vira uma mesa?

Que dono de Quintal, ou Terraço, não quer constuír uma maravilha destas?

Banc tranformable en table

deveault

http://www.lairdubois.fr/plans/105-banc-tranformable-en-table.html

 

Este conceito aproveita todo o calor que foje pela periferia das panelas acima, por isso vai ser muito aproveitado, e copiado, no futuro:

Rocket Scientist Creates an Ultra-Efficient Saucepan

Lara Lopes

With a little bit of rocket science and the motivation to innovate the traditional cookware, scientists at the University of Oxford in England created a pan 40% more efficient in terms of heat conduction based on research conducted by the Department of Engineering of the University. The “Flare Pan” was recently launched on to the market by Lakeland, a famous British kitchenware chain.

http://interestingengineering.com/rocket-scientist-creates-an-ultra-efficient-saucepan/

E pode ser feito tanto em Sugru, como em Oogoo, façam os vossos próprios Carimbos, e padrões de Estampagem!

Impressed Sugru Stamps 

aitmcq

For my mixed-media art, I like to use stamped patterns. I'm always looking for ways to create my own patterns and textures. Enter my local makerspace, Phoenix Asylum, and its Sugru Build Night!

http://www.instructables.com/id/Impressed-Sugru-Stamps/

Carpintaria enquanto Arte, Uma Câmara vídeo, um Sistema Lego-compatível, e uma Targeta LED

Eis uma dica do Blogue L'Air du Bois, sobre um Carpinteiro Inglês que desdenha as Ferramentas Eléctricas, e entre um mundo de coisas, vejam-no falando sobre a Arte, como só fala, quem a ama:

The Art of Ancient Hands
Paul Sellers

A Chisel 1/16” slides into pine like a hot knife into butter. Mortising holes is not always for large work. Many years ago a customer brought hundreds of rosewood parts to me in a cardboard box. It was a multifaceted Chinese lantern made up of frames that housed painted glass panels. Each meeting point intersected with mitred tenons into mitred reception mortises on the adjacent stiles. The owner had missing parts by the dozen, but in the scheme and scale of things, what was missing seemed very small.

http://paulsellers.com/2014/07/the-art-of-ancient-hands/

 

Eis uma pequena Câmara Vídeo, com muito que falar...

Dica da Red Shark, esta pequena maravilha vai fazer justiça às vossas Demosntrações de Protótipos, sem compromissos, porque tem resolução para isso, um Sensor de 1 Polegada trata bem do assunto:

New Sony X70 - a 20 megapixel 4K-upgradable XDCAM. Our first hands-on report 

Sony has this week announced a small XDCAM camcorder with an unusually high specifiation - which will be extended to 4K with a future upgrade

The world contains a lot of small, handheld camcorders. They're often especially small and hand-holdable now we're beyond the point of including a tape mechanism and the only moving part is often in the lens. Sony's new PMW-X70, therefore, enters a crowded field, and needs some genuinely interesting specifications to distinguish itself.
Perhaps the most arresting development in the X70 is the sensor – the same one-inch chip as has already been deployed in the FDR-AX100 and in at least one of Sony's compact stills cameras. This technological convergence is no great surprise, although this is the first time we've seen  the sensor married to a 4:2:2 10-bit recording system, which should be as able as anything to demonstrate the successes – and failures, if any – of the imager.

http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/1873-new-sony-x70-a-20-megapixel-4k-xdcam-our-first-hands-on

 

Para aprender Robótica a brincar, que é uma actividade com um óbvio Futuro, para os vosso filhos, eis mais um Sistema compatível com as peças Lego, e não só acessível, como uma alegria de programar, no fundo juntar outros tantos blocos, como os da Lego, mas lógicos:

Edison offers affordable and Lego-compatible robotics education

Heidi Hoopes

Named to reflect its "inventive spirit," Edison features a host of sensors and runs on open source software. Each small bot is programmable and interacts with the world via IR transmitters and receivers, line tracking, barcode reading, playing sounds and music, and sound detection. One Edison can communicate with another over IR, with the units also able to be programmed to by controlled via TV and DVD remotes.

It’s in Edison’s open source programming tool where the micro action really happens. Edware, similar to Scratch and other graphical drag-and-drop programming languages, allows users to create programs for Edison that users can upload to the bot via their computer’s headphone jack and a cable that ships with the robots. Edware is already available for download for Windows only, though Linux and Mac versions will be provided later.

http://www.gizmag.com/edison-lego-robotics-children/33165/

E o que temos a seguir, é um simpático sistema de Targetas LED, para fácil identificação, nas vossas reuniões de Fabbers e etc. que usa a Técnica do Corte CNC de Acrílico, tudo isto, que podem criar nas Fab-Labs:

LED Nametag 

janth

As a part of the Helle Koepfe-workshop for kids we designed some nametags, such that each kid could make their own led nametag at their short visit of the FabLab Aachen. Therefore ist shouldn't be too complicated, fast to build, not too expensive, and has to be awesome... at least that were the requirements.

Only a 2032 coin cells, two bright 3mm leds and a piece of 2mm acrylic and two short pieces of wire are necessery. The clip-on could be of cource be replaced by a piece of wire, but we had a bunch of them from another project.

The one and only tool which is used is the epilog zing laser cutter of the fablab.

www.instructables.com/id/LED-Nametag/  

 

Super-Tele-Raspi, Móveis modulares, um Tubo Laser, e uma tenda prós Gatos!

Podem adicionar algo mais do que a Comunicação Wifi ao Raspberry Pi, e ao Arduino, numa série de usos possíveis, e atenção, não é qualquer coisa, podem comunicar os dados, através do Planeta, com estas Gigajogas que comunicam bem mais longe que o Wifi, ou a tecnologia Bluetooth:

Bringing Cellular Networking Connectivity to Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Designspark Magazine 

California-based company that has come up with the concept of a tiny cellular development board that provides the opportunity to developers to add worldwide wireless coverage. Initially launched back in August via the Kickstarter crowd-funding programme, the CELLv1.0 enables worldwide wireless Internet access for projects using Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms. Although Bluetooth and WIFI offer high-speed data transfer, relatively speaking, there are clear limitations in terms of distance, operating over a few meters or a few tens of metres; whereas cellular enables significantly greater range and is ideal for ‘small data’ projects that need to operate over distances such as a few streets or a town or even a country away.

http://www.rs-online.com/designspark/electronics/eng/blog/bringing-cellular-networking-connectivity-to-raspberry-pi-and-arduino

L'air du Bois, notável site de Carpintaria Francês, é um site a subscrever, e já se vê porquê, neste maravilhoso Móvel Modular, que é a resposta aos sonhos de muito Engenhocas atormentado pela falta de espaço, e tralha por todo o lado!

Meuble à langer modulable
mokozore

Meuble à langer modulable... enfin, c'est une commodulable. Bon, le désign est assez en vogue, j'ai rien inventé.
Par contre, je suis content du mélange de bois. De l'aulne pour les montants et les façades de tiroir, du merisier pour les plateaux du dessus. Du noyer pour les tiroirs et les étagères du milieu des colonnes. Un montant de chaque colonne est un assemblage aulne/noyer/aulne...

Au final c'est pas si mal toutes ces essences différentes...

La finition c'est vernis pour toutes les faces "extérieures", et huile dure pour les parties non visibles ou disons non soumises aux projections diverses.

 

http://www.lairdubois.fr/creations/426-meuble-a-langer-modulable.html

Fiquei intrigado com um email que recebi, por isso, cá vai, para que os Peritos na Matéria analizem, e digam de sua justiça, nos comentários, se isto é uma boa compra para o vosso Cortador Laser CNC, e se estão interessados:

FL-690 Laser Engraving/Cutting Machine with servo motor and metal tube

E uma ideia simples e engraçada prós Tarecos, uma Tenda, a partir duma T-shirt, dois Cabides de Arame, e pouco mais:

DIY cat tent 

jessyratfink

I kept seeing photos of cat tents on Pinterest and being shared on Facebook, but none of them had good instructions! I decided to make a cat tent for Luna and document it so you guys could make one too. :D
This cat tent is super easy to make - you really just need a t-shirt, some wire hangers and a piece of cardboard. As a bonus, it really only takes five minutes, so if your cat ignores it you didn't put too much effort in. ;)

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-cat-tent/

Amorim Inventa! e um RoboPato, DesignLuso-Britânico, Remos, e um Pantógrafo

O Grupo Amorim, Companhia que muito fez e faz pelo nosso País, inventou este sistema de Rolha-e-Garrafa, que não necessita de saca-rolhas...

Porque se desenrosca a Rolha!

Parabéns, e façam favor, continuem a ser como são.

Twist-off cork shifts the wine paradigm

David Szondy

What could be nicer than a picnic in a pleasant country field, a rotisserie chicken, a loaf of oven-hot bread and a nice bottle of wine? That is, provided you don't forget the corkscrew. This week, Amorim, the world’s largest manufacturer of cork stoppers, and O-I, the world's largest glass container manufacturer, made this nightmare scenario a little less likely by unveiling their Helix cork and bottle that are designed so that the cork can be removed with a simple twist of the wrist.

The Helix “twist to open” system consists of an ergonomically-designed cork stopper and a glass bottle with an internal thread finish in the neck. Instead of requiring a corkscrew, it opens like a screw-top bottle, though with the addition of a pleasant “pop.” It is also resealable as easily as it opens.

http://www.gizmag.com/helix-cork/27951/

Notícias da Mindsets, este Robot-Pato é uma ideia genial para conquistar as Crianças para a Tecnologia, porque até os Adultos quererão construír um! 
Eu sei que EU quero... LOL

Robot Duck

Is there a convenient way to enable whole classes to get involved in robot building..?

This ‘kit of parts’ has all the basic components – including pre-cut plates – needed to get a robot walking, but not all the final answers.
Creative involvement ranges from investigation of mechanical variables to a major re-think of geometry. Or how about a simple hand-coloured body for the duck...

http://www.mindsetsonline.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=934

Este é outro bom exemplo, Cortesia da página Facebook do nosso amigo GlenHo Bespoke, de que se pode fazer Mobiliário acessível e bem-feito, e em colaboração com outros Profissionais, de outros Países, mais uma boa Iniciativa, desta vez, Luso-Britânica, estão de parabéns!

Another Country makes contemporary craft furniture by hand in workshops in the UK and Portugal. We believe in good design, longevity, sustainability and quality at fair prices. Welcome to anothercountry.com

In Portugal we manufacture one hour south of the beautiful city of Porto. We filmed one of our visits to show you how our furniture is made...

The workshop is unique in being climate controlled, ensuring our furniture is made in an optimal environment. Whether we made in the UK or Portugal, we always select FSC certified solid woods. The workshop is heated entirely by the wood off-cuts it generates.

We combine traditional methods of making with modern technology to ensure that each piece is made with great care, attention to detail and precision. Every piece is hand assembled and hand finished. And finally, each piece is quality controlled before leaving the workshop.

We really believe you can not make furniture in a better way than this.

http://www.anothercountry.com/

Mais uma Engenhoca em Papel, do nosso amigo Rob Ives, a evolução dum sistema mecânico para remadores em papel, algo que faz sempre sorrir, e é porreiro de montar:

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Visit the blog and follow along with the development of a new, as yet un-named project featuring three syncronised rowers in a boat.

Possibly a Ship of Fools or possibly a Wolf Boat, I'm not sure yet. One thing I have worked out though is the mechanism to drive the oars.
Follow along how this project develops on the website by clicking on the link.

http://www.robives.com/content/row_row_row_19th_june_2013

Terminamos por hoje com outra dica de GlenHo, esta simpática página em Francês, L'air du Bois, , onde se vâ este muito bem acabado Pantógrafo em Madeira, para Fresa, um mimo, e ainda podem descortinar na foto um Desenhador de Elipses, que serve às mil maravilhas, na Fresa:

Table pour pantographe de défonceuse

Le pantographe pour défonceuse est une machine finalement assez intéressante pour copier. Et c'est aussi une machine assez polyvalente. C'est pourquoi, j'ai repensé la table qui supporte autant les pièces à usiner que le modèle à copier.
Ma première utilisation a été d'en faire une machine à queue d'arondes. Le résultat est très satisfaisant.
Cette table permet le serrage et le maintient des pièces à plat et debout.
Une petit tablette réglable vient chevaucher le tout pour porter le modèle à copier.

http://www.lairdubois.fr/creations/82-table-pour-pantographe.html