A stick had the honor of being inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. I love what the curator had to say about it. “This toy is so fantastic that it’s not just for humans anymore. You can find otters, chimps and dogs — especially dogs — playing with it.” (Anyone else having Ren […]
Unsung Geniuses: Florence Thomas of ViewMaster via DnR. Most fans of the tiny fantasy worlds glimpsed through the lens of a View-Master viewer are probably unaware of the name Florence Thomas. Thomas was the Portland, Oregon sculptor employed by the makers of the 3-D viewer to create miniature dioramas of fairy tales and pop culture […]
SilverHalo’s Digital thermostatic beer refreshment regulator – he writes… This is my work in building an Arduino based digital thermostat for controlling my DIY kegerator. The project is based around the Arduino and uses a LM35 sensor for temperature measurement, a solid state relay for turning on/off the refridgerator, and a serial LCD panel for […]
Folding Trees shares a two–part tutorial for making these elegant Japanese flower balls called kusudama. The Japanese kusudama is a paper ball made out of multiple identical origami shapes glued together. They were traditionally used as a ball for incense or potpourri but now we see them more for decoration or as a gift.
By way of Laughing Squid comes this awesome plastic army man costume. Plastic Green Army Man Halloween Costume
I did a post on the Make blog a while back on making recycled paper and it covered making paper from dryer lint – here’s a tutorial about making modeling dough from dryer lint.
Wanda’s tangible remake of the familiar Photoshop desktop would likely make an awesome them for the popular app were it skinable – as real as it gets… [via Kottke]
