Year: 2008

Portal projects

Portal projects

People love Portal! (FYI: Portal = popular video game from Valve software.) Exhibit A: Recreation of the PC cases found in the game Nick writes – You’ve got a stock PC, but don’t have enough cash to build a new one. Well…Mod it! After seeing me play a little of portal, my wife liked the […]

DIY Lace Prom Dress

Craftster user Skarinja created this fresh and lovely prom dress using 188 feet of lace and eyelet. She hand-dyed the lace so she’d have various shades of cream and white to work with, and sewed it all without using any kind of pattern. Great job, Skarinja! Link.

SketchUp has a Ruby API

I guess it’s been available for a few months, but I just noticed that there’s a Ruby API for Google SketchUp. Looks like a cool tool for extending the building interface, integrating SketchUp entities with external software, and building procedural stuff, like making terrain or stairs. Here’s a video of SketchUp developer Mark Limber talking […]