Lego baseplate shirt
Ty over at ThinkGeek hipped us to their latest custom product, which is a T-shirt with a Lego-compatible baseplate attached to the front so you can build stuff on it–murals, spaceships, chunky boobs, whatever floats your boat.
Month: September 2009
Straw-bale house construction timeline
Peter Maltzan is building a passive solar straw-bale house, and has been at it since October of 2008. He’s done a great job of documenting the construction process, which is now nearly complete, in photographs. Highly recommended if you want to get a feel for how it all goes together. Thanks to MAKE subscriber Pete Marchetto for suggesting the link.
Custom Wedding Corsages
Littlemithi of planetMithi shares these charming custom corsages she made for her wedding. Rather than make boutonnieres, which just didn’t appeal to me, I handmade little photo corsage/ribbon/brooch/award things for all the wedding party and immediate family.
Ask MAKE: Why do flourescent lights buzz?
A few weeks ago, we looked at why dimmer switches cause incandescent light bulbs to buzz. We subsequently received a number of questions about why flourescent bulbs vibrate.
Matchbox collision photography
From the MAKE Flickr pool For the first assignment of his Intro to Physical Computing class, Greg rigged up a couple of conductive matchbox cars to act as a switch – lighting their moment of impact. Read more over at Ideas for Dozens.
Cheap fisheye lens
Cheap fisheye lens – I have come across a few broken, or just old and scratched, camera lenses at garage sales that would be perfect for this project. Although there aren’t specific directions on how to make one, the image above does certainly make it look easy.
Working printed handcuff key
A German hacker named Ray has printed a working handcuff key, to the Dutch national pattern, on his RepRap. You can download the .STL file here. Not that we encourage that sort of thing. <SUBLIMINAL>Do it do it do it do it.</SUBLIMINAL> [via Boing Boing]
