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Ham Ham Ita Bag by CosmicPlay
Campaign Rewards FAQ Community Hello! My name is Nikki aka @CosmicPlay_ on Instagram. I'm a small business owner and designer who loves anime, video games, and comics/manga. I love creating merchandise for characters you normally or hard-to-find merchandise for while also creating merchandise for popular ones as long as it brings a smile to my everyone's face. This campaign will help produce these ITA backpacks , stretch goals, and day 1 freebie acrylic pins.
Simone and Laura Make a Living Plant Lamp
Simone Giertz recently traveled to Germany to hang out with her friend, Laura Kampf. Looking for a project to do together, they roll the build dice they developed together and that inspires the idea of a flower vase that also serves as a lamp. Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world.
Simone Giertz Redoes Her Workshop
Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to.
Dog Collar Works Like an Apple Watch
Pet trackers are not anything new but this collar does more than track your dog using GPS. Just like an Apple Watch, it is able to monitor vital signs. Invoxia, the team behind it, worked with vets to come up with an AI system based on miniaturized radar sensors. Remember the Soli radar in Pixel 4? It’s very similar to that. Unlike smartwatches and fitness trackers, this one doesn’t require a tight fit or skin contact.
Simone Giertz Renovates a Camper to Host a Visit from Her Mom
December 1, 2021 AT 9:45 pm Simone Giertz Renovates a Camper to Host a Visit from Her Mom Maker-comedian Simone Giertz has not seen her Swedish mother in more than 2 years. In anticipation of her visit to Simone’s new LA home, Simone acquired a small camper/trailer to create a guest bedroom for her house. The video is extraordinarily touching, seeing this mother-daughter reunion.
Simone Makes a Safety Glasses Hat
October 18, 2021 AT 7:30 pm Simone Makes a Safety Glasses Hat In this video, Simone Giertz turns a visor hat into a pair of safety glasses. Sort of. Not really. Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more.
Why You Should Make Useless Things
Why You Should Make Useless Things In this joyful, heartfelt talk featuring demos of her wonderfully wacky creations, Simone Giertz shares her craft: making useless robots. Her inventions — designed to chop vegetables, cut hair, apply lipstick and more — rarely (if ever) succeed, and that’s the point. “The true beauty of making useless things [is] this acknowledgment that you don’t […]
Why you should make useless things
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What can cavefish teach us about the world?
During the Age of Enlightenment’s scientific revolution, naturalists went out into the world in large numbers to take a census of the earth’s flora and fauna: collecting different plants and animals, identifying the ones never before seen, and naming and classifying them according to the taxonomy system devised by Carl Linnaeus.
Maker Builds A Wonderfully Shitty Robot That Orbits Objects Around Her Head
RUNNING RINGS AROUND HER Maker Builds A Wonderfully Shitty Robot That Orbits Objects Around Her Head "I'm a millennial. I want things to revolve around me. So I made this machine that puts things into orbit around my head."
We Can't Believe These Two Inventors Actually Turned A Car Into A Computer Mouse
And then they proceeded to try to draw a picture on a computer with the car.
Seven absurd inventions set to change the world forever
Stockholm-born Simone Giertz is a creative technologist who builds possibly revolutionary -- and often terrifying -- robots to inspire people to learn about programming and electronics. Here, she imagines seven inventions that could change the world forever. Any views expressed are her own. (CNN) That technology has changed human life forever is as self-evident as Donald Trump's comb-over. But despite our technological advances, managing day-to-day chores is still a very manual matter.
✈️ Neck Pillow Lounge™️ - For The Ultimate Travel Experience
Campaign Rewards FAQ 4 Community Picture this: a world where relaxation knows no bounds. 🌍 Introducing the Neck Pillow Lounge – your portal to a world of comfort on the move! Except for the colors, the design presented here is final and it only needs to be adjusted for large-scale production. We are looking forward to adding improvements the community will ask for! We have taken it upon ourselves to test the products on several trips and environments.
Jobros Angel and Demon Themed Enamel Pin
Campaign Rewards FAQ Community Hello everyone! I'm Shio, a freelance artist based in Japan. My goal of this Kickstarter is to fund enamel pins which are inspired by Angel/demon themed Jobros sequel to my previous pin series.
Desire Lines
Desire Lines is a hybrid feature film that blends personal interviews, archival materials, and narrative fiction as a framework for exploring the complicated and often unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality. Testimonials from transgender men both past and present dissect how cultural expectations, political agendas, and gatekeeping practices shape the locus of desire. The fictional story centers on Ahmad, an Iranian expat who arrived in America at the onset of the AIDS crisis.
Crafting Dreams: Irina's Tatting Jewelry Venture
Hello, I'm Irina, a mother of four. I've always had a passion for crafting, and I discovered the delicate art of tatting several months ago. Tatting is a delicate craft that involves creating intricate lace-like designs with thread, resulting in timeless and exquisite pieces. For years, my life revolved around raising my children and supporting my family, and my dream of starting my own business had to wait.
BROADS LOUNGE
We are intentionally creating an inclusive space that is all about celebrating women. We are focused on stocking our bar with as many female-founded and female-led brands as possible. Introducing Bailey & Kristiana Bailey & Kristiana opened the vegan restaurant Cashew in September of 2013. Cashew has become a destination for vegans and non-vegans alike and is known for great food, killer baked goods, and all-around awesome vibes.
Another Me: Explore situation of conflicting personalities
A unique and intriguing coloring book featuring original artwork by Cherry Tung, a multi-talented artist and author. This amazing new publication comes printed on high-quality paper and features 30 black and white illustrations with the theme of “Another Me”. Why “Another Me”? Cherry chose to do “Another Me” rather than “another hand”, “another leg” or “another eyes” because she wanted to explore the situation of having conflicting personalities.
Flying the Fortress - Saving World War II History
My friend George once said: "I know what a deadline is. A deadline is when you have a 97 year old veteran waiting on you, and he is saying he doesn't have much time. Everything else can go to the side." Myself (TJ) with B-17 Pilot Dick Nelms in October of 2023 For the past year, myself and two of my closest friends - Josh and George, have been travelling across the country to locate and interview the last surviving veterans from World War II who participated in the air war.
Dice Demon
DICE DEMON Dice Demons are 3D printed fixtures that make it easy and fast to make your own polyhedron shaped dice out of wood using a bandsaw. Dice Demons take most of the woodworking skill out of the equation allowing you to easily make your own dice out of wood (or any material that your band saw will cut). No complex angles or geometry to figure out. No time consuming setups to change from one die type to the next. The 3D printed fixtures have all of the complex angles built in.
Michael Knott Screaming Brittle Siren Vinyl Kickstarter
Campaign Rewards FAQ 1 Community SPIN Magazine.... Screaming Brittle Siren Named Top Ten in it's Genre in 2022 "It’s nice when an album’s title accurately describes what you hear when you give that album a spin, although “Screaming Brittle Siren” Only describes the loud parts. Not that there aren’t plenty (think grunge with pinches of goth and Blue Öyster Cult) but they’re spelled by the occasional Kronos Quartet-like interlude and threaded through with introspective lyrics"....
Firefighters on Duty Board Game
Campaign Rewards FAQ 4 Community Firefighters: On Duty is a dynamic, real-time cooperative board game for 1-4 players, that plays in 30-45 minutes. In the game, players take on the role of the fire department, facing disasters in numerous different scenarios. The game is played over 6 rounds of real-time action. By rolling their action dice within 2-minute rounds, players can extinguish fires, rescue injured civilians, answer distress calls and do everything they can to keep the city safe.
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