Phil @ MAKE points us to these amazing edible googly eyes made by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories write – After more than a year of painstaking directed research by our Experimental Foods Division, we have finally achieved one of our most important longstanding goals: the production of edible googly eyes. Like […]
Elena points us to Kotori from Yves Geleyn. It’s a beautifully inspiring short film that’s made with sewing, stitching, and stop animation. Link.
Andrea sent in this awesome pedal powered tennis ball launcher! This is a chimera tennis ball cannon made from a bike that you can pedal. It is both cleanly powered and built from recycled bicycles. It allows players varying in skill levels to practice to be better at both tennis and cycling. The launcher is […]
Some new GPS action over @ SparkFun – It’s not quite small enough to track your cat, but the Uber Tracker is a beast of a product. This device may seem simple enough: get GPS coordinates and broadcast those coordinates over the cellular network – but it’s so much more! The Uber Tracker has open […]
Hi Crafters! I’m speaking a month from now at the CHA Winter Convention in Anaheim, CA. (If you don’t know, CHA is the Craft & Hobby Association and the Winter Convention is one of the largest events of the year bringing together craft businesses.) My session, “The Indie-Craft Revolution!” will be on Saturday, February 9th […]
Telstar Logistics writes – While paying a visit to the studio of San Francisco artist Alanna Spence recently, Telstar Logistics was introduced to a lost gem of a book called “Flight thru Instruments.” Flightthruinstr09_2 Published as a pilot-training manual by the US Navy in 1945, “Flight thru Instruments” teaches proper aeronautical navigation techniques through the […]
Interesting touch-sensitive mixers with a LED matrix under the faders, Soundwidgets writes – The Stribe’s original name was “xenome” – a nod to Brian Crabtree’s amazing monome 40h project, which inspired me to build the first Stribe in the summer of ’07. For many years, I’d been thinking about and experimenting with alternative interfaces, but […]
