Musical Japanese road
Here’s a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them. Only in Japan… (Thanks Dan and Carlo!) Melodic highway.
Month: March 2008
HOW TO – Octopus from Sweater Sleeves
Dot at Dabbled made tutorial for making an octopus puppet from recycled sweater sleeves. What a great project for reusing your moth-eaten or otherwise un-thriftworthy garments!
Bicycle rim antenna
Keep an eye out for good salvagable parts, especially around spring cleaning time – Several months ago I was walking home from the post office, nearing my place I saw it was “clean-up week”, the curb dotted with various piles of junk people had put out to be disposed off by the council pickup. The […]
T&T Plastic Land NYC
Continuing on our Maker tour of NYC… Canal street, NYC is an interesting place – you’d think there would only be room for one acrylic / lasering plastic store, nope! There’s two in eye-sight of each other. Our next stop for sheets of acrylic, plastics, plexi-glass, lucite and vinyl and more was T&T Plastic Land, […]
HOW TO – Make a Vintage Pillowcase Lunchbox
Oh, Fransson! provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to make this super-sweet lunchbox using a vintage pillowcase and iron-on vinyl. Vintage Pillowcase Lunchbox Tutorial
Vintage science and tech illustrations
Wonderful collection of illustrations from science books of the mid-20th century. Vintage Science Flickr Pool [via]
REMINDER: Time for spring cleaning! Recycling event at ACCRC
REMINDER: Attention Bay Area Makers! Is your house is filled with old, abandoned electronics? Do you have failed or unsatisfying projects in your garage? Maybe it’s time for some spring cleaning. You recycle your unused, household electronics this Saturday, March 29 from 10 am to 4pm at ACCRC in Berkeley. No fees are charged for […]
