Rainbow Skirt
Flickr user Crafty Intentions spent five months sewing this intricate, floor-length rainbow skirt, which features 10 tiers of 4″ x 4″ patchwork squares. It’s like Scarlett O’Hara meets Willy Wonka–in the best possible way, of course!
Month: July 2008
High power rocket pics
Erik Charlton has some nice pics on Flickr of his NAR Level 3 Certification flight at the recent Rocket Mavericks event. The rocket he flew is a 10″ Polecat Bullpup which is 80 lbs and 110″ tall. It flew to 4,500 feet on an Aerotech M1419 motor with twin G Wiz LCX flight computers. Liftoff
Bend-less Speak & Spell glitching
Curious about exploring the glitchy goodness of the now-classic Speak & Spell learning toy but not quite ready to crack it open and get to the soldering? Perhaps the above how-to will be enough to whet your appetite. [via Matrixsynth]
ChapStick LED Flashlight
Apparently ChapStick is the new Altoids. I really like this little LED flashlight that “BCat” stuffed into a ChapStick container. It uses an A23 (12V) battery that fits nicely inside. Why a 12V battery? “BCat” was able to buy 2 for $2 as opposed to the more expensive coin cells. Make you own ChapStick LED […]
Crafts by Alice’s Crocheted Mome Raths
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Crafts by Alice has been whipping up some fun Alice in Wonderland-inspired crafts–most recently these cute crocheted Mome Raths. (Here’s a still from the Disney movie, which she used for reference.)
Kinetic toothpick San Francisco tour
Scott Weaver made this huge kinetic sculpture of San Francisco entirely from toothpicks. A ball travels through it, touring the elements of the city. I’d hate to be transporting this thing on a windy day! Via Laughing Squid.
E-bola (no, not that kind)
What do you get when you combine LED throwies with a gaucho snaring weapon? This clever contraption, dubbed the E-bola by creator Tetranitrate on instructables. Using the LEDs and batteries as weights, this throwing weapon lets your prey know you’re coming. Oh, and also makes for some nice long-exposure photography. This is probably dangerous to […]
