We pointed out this great Instructable on making LED light drawing pens a while back. Stuart and Lori have a really neat tutorial about light drawing on their site, LightDoodles. (I’ve always loved this picture of Picasso.) Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a […]
Here’s one you don’t see everyday – instructions for making your own giant-sized polygonally modelled Mahatma Gandhi – After walking with Gandhi in Second Life for 240 miles I decided it would be interesting to extract my avatar from this online world and recreate him in monumental scale. This instructable takes you through the process […]
Desertfoxx sent us a tip to a classic KipKay howto video. It’s pretty easy to swap out the diode in a laser pointer or similar laser housing with the diode from an old DVD burner. Put the whole deal into a mini Maglite and you’ve got yourself a nice little handheld fire starter, perfect for […]
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Device is a new art gallery in La Jolla, California created by sculptor Greg Brotherton and his wife Amy. Their next show, Fantastic Contraption, opens July 19 (and runs through Sept. 2). The 18-artist show explores the leaky margins between humans and their machinery and includes some of my favorites: Stephane Halleux, Nemo Gould, Theo […]
Cupcakes Take the Cake links to My Sweet and Saucy’s photo tutorial teaching us how to make these gorgeous and professional-looking frosting flowers. These would be so pretty for a casual summer wedding, baby shower, or any special event.
Sparkfun just released yet another Arduino variant, the Wii “Wee” – SparkFun’s minimal design approach to Arduino. This is a 3.3V Arduino running the 8MHz bootloader (select ‘LilyPad’ within the Arduino software). The Wee is not a fully certified Arduino board. We’re working with Arduino.cc towards certification. […] We really wanted to minimize the cost […]
