HOW TO – Make a slingshot
Here’s a simple and easy Instructable on making a sling shot from rubberbands, vinyl baseboard or leather from old shoes – Link.
Year: 2006
Selecting your next cordless drill
Charles writes – “We recently had to replace a cordless drill and had a heck of a time plowing through all the specs to figure out what diffrentiates the 40+ drills you can get at Home Depot alone. When were were done, we wrote it all up for our blog, Toolmonger, and included the spreadsheet […]
Canada’s SweaterLodge Exhibtion in Venice this Fall
Arwen pointed us to this intriguing story about Canada’s official entry for the architecture portion of this fall’s Venice Bienale Event. SweaterLodge, created by design firm Pechet and Robb, will become a massive pavilion designed as giant orange polar fleece. The polar fleece fabric itself is made from recycled plastic drink containers. From the site, […]
Homemade polyester stage lighting filters for cameras
Tom writes – “Check out Greyhoundmans process for using a jewel case, some PVC pipe and inexpensive polyester stage lighting filters to make an assortment of filters for your large format camera lenses at a fraction of the cost of regular filters.” – Link. Related: More filter’s – Link.
HOW TO – Shock-Proof your Garmin GPS
Dan writes – “Shock-Proof your Garmin GPS to prevent unintended power-downs. I look at a couple different ways to make the fix, and actually do one of them. This project requires soldering a couple of fairly tricky connections inside the otherwise working GPS, so use caution.” – Link.
3D Milling service for virtual worlds
And so it begins! Mark over on 3pointD has a bit about a new 3D printing service for virtual world avatars / objects, looks like it might be $50 a pop – “Second Life residents will soon be able to order up physical versions of their avatars, their builds or their favorite Second Life objects […]
Balloon Manor – interactive balloon haunted house
Larry writes “The silly, creepy, funny, weird, slightly haunted castle made _entirely_ out of balloons. In October 2004, this 60,000 balloon, 10,000 square foot, family friendly haunted house was built as a community project by 300 volunteers to raise money for cancer research. It was such a hit that it’s being done again in Oct […]