Plastic Cup Sculpture
Kristin Nordhøy made this cool sculpture made from stacks of plastic drinking cups twisted to form loops. I love the organic shapes she achieves with such commercial materials. Via VVORK.
Month: September 2008
HOW TO – Mini-Sweater Holiday Ornaments
Is it that time already?! WhipUp tips us off to this knitting pattern at Berroco, which shows how to make these sweet mini-sweater holiday ornaments. There are twelve tiny designs in all!
DIY: External SLA Battery Flash Mod
You definitely don’t want to be carrying this hacked flash around with you. However, it is a great project for any photographer who is shooting off shoe. If you’ve been shooting with a flash for a while, I’m sure you had some battery problem or another at least once. Like when one of four batteries […]
Sharpie Marker Basement
Marc @ MAKE writes: Who says decorating has to be expensive? This room was completely covered in amazing illustrations, all drawn with a Sharpie Marker. It’s a cheap DIY project, but it’s going to take a lot of time and talent to complete. More about Decorating your room wit a Sharpie Marker at Kentucky.com In […]
The how-to cat!
(Mike covered this in Made in Japan 32 but surely it deserves its very own dedicated post.) In what are hands-down the absolute cutest video tutorials I have ever laid eyes on, Zannaleeidees employs a feline pal for manual demonstration – either that or Zannaleeidees actually is a cat. Whatever the case may be, I’m […]
Salt water Leyden jar
Warning: High Voltage Ahead. This Instructable shows you how to make an old-school high voltage capacitor, a Leyden jar, out of a jar of salt water. Even though this shows you how to make a small-jar capacitor, so the voltage is probably not lethal, it’ll still pack a wallop, so not something to be undertaken […]
Casio SK-1 rail-contact roundabout bend-a-roo
Wow, Gijs’ mechanical circuit-bent Casio is starting to resemble an amusement park ride. Nice use of a motor/drag contact for sound, and apparently this instrument does more than just that – It has also got a video out, The video out is basically just the signals from the patch bay going throe a 1k resistor […]
