We are highly inspired by Lisa Kokin’s art work created from found materials such as photographs, buttons, books, old toys, and more. The pieces are all about memory and history, many using stitching techniques on items which are not normally sewn. Kokin describes her style, “My work has always had an obsessive quality and this […]
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! Reducing waste + getting a cool building material = DIY Shrinky Dinks. Hundreds of other projects of this quality + 10/18 to 10/19 in Austin makes […]
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! Blacksmithing isn’t just a scene in medieval movies: check out the Austin Metal Authority area at Maker Faire for “a live demo of blacksmithing techniques, including […]
Nice skakeboard grip tape pattern made with subhead anti-slip stickers via BB. Usually used for slippery areas, designer Jesse Milden has a lot of nice patterns for keeping humans upright.
IDEO has a new lab blog that catalogs some of their projects and experiments, here’s a multi-touch display… They released the code for the FTIR server and the Flash API here if you want to check it out… At IDEO we’re all about building to think. Learning from books and websites and product demos is […]
Very cool looking homemade / modded hand grenade mouse from a Russia modding forums. Looks pretty easy to remake…
Ted Hunter’s skateboard flower via NOTCOT. Ted writes- This piece, I built is called Reach for Light. It was last shown at the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia but was originally built for an art exhibition in Hawaii . It’s a good example of free hand vacuum veneer bending. The flower petal designs are actually […]
