The “MaxBlaster” is a 38 million candle power flashlight created by Dutch optics engineer Ralf Ottow. By taking apart a commercial flashlight, inserting a mercury arc bulb, and adding a custom designed reflector, the beam is as powerful as a miniature star when seeing it from a distance. Pretty amazing design, just don’t look at […]
This week: The Gossamer 1 Art Machine, Making Tombodama, Digital Camera Goggles, The Reduino, Styrofoam Dome Homes, The Ferrofluid Sculptures of Sachiko Kodama, DIY 3-color Projections, iPhone from Beads, Mosquito Repellant iPhone App. The Gossamer 1 Art Machine Moxuse demo’d this art/technology project at the latest EIZONE 2008 in Yokohama. With a canvas of paper, […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Modded knee brace [above, bottom-right] Results from the electric junk guitar workshop [above, bottom-left] Hot PCB lasering action DFW Synth DIY Meet up Big box o’ techno [above, top-right] Catastrophic Cacophony Workshop DIY easel-workstation [above, top-left]
I love getting glimpses into other people’s workspaces and was so impressed at the transformation of interior designer Paula Prass’ studio . Paula’s just licensed her first line of fabrics through Michael Miller and you can see the crafty touches throughout the place.
Seed magazine has these great downloadable cribsheets about synthetic biology (Spore fans take note!), genetics, the elements, hurricanes – there are sixteen subjects so far.
Brian Duey has a great website with a bunch of learn-to-draw tutorials. Many great projects start with a sketch, so learning to draw can really help you in the early stages of design. Check out Brian’s website for a lot of great tutorials. Learn how to Draw a car [and more!]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr Pool we saw: HOW TO – Simple Knitted Ball (top left) Crocheted Mushroom Terrarium (top right) Knitting Mario Level One (bottom right) Crochet Raygun (bottom left) Pillow Case Dress Crochet Headphone Covers And here are some photos from the pool that I thought you all might enjoy: Felt Leaf […]
