Do you want to learn about making an earthen oven? Make sure to check out Design~Build~Live at Maker Faire in Austin this weekend. Natural building uses natural, locally-available materials to construct beautiful, nontoxic, environmentally-responsible structures for living. As a demonstration of natural building that anyone can create in a couple of weekends, we will build […]
Photographer David Friedman shares pics from his visit to a jean distressing facility in Kentucky. Seeing people hard at work creating the high-fashion faux-used clothing makes me see the product in a somewhat better light. What these people do in a short period of time often takes me several months! – Photo Essay: The Denim […]
Limor has a quick hack up on her blog on getting an analog signal from a digital proximity sensor to work around a preset distance trigger.
Ok, this one is kind of gross, and kind of neat! It’s a group of animated rats eating a leg. Yummy! Check out the web site for pictures of the build and a movie of the final prop. The pictures pretty much tell the story of this prop. A small motor turns a crank (or […]
This isn’t a Halloween trick or decoration, but it’s still a bit creepy. Not sure what a Psi wheel is? Check out the wikipedia entry. Making a psi wheel can be an interesting demonstration of telekinesis or science, depending on your individual perspective. Unlike a psi ball, a psi wheel creates a readily observable effect […]
This is a great, and green, way to decorate your house for Halloween. Almost everyone has a few pieces of scrap wood that they could use to make some scary looking boarded up windows. I first measured my windows and made a frame out of 1″x2″ furring strips. The “boards are scrap 1/4” plywood left […]
Folding Trees points us towards Rubbergob’s Paper Birdy Make-It Kit you can download and cut out from home.
