Brian Dettmer’s “Adaptations”
Brian Dettmer carefully dissects books into these lovely sculptures that reveal their inner relationships. They’ll be on display in Chicago through May 9 at the Packer Schopf Gallery. Via Cool Hunting.
Year: 2009
Online Wood Type Museum
Fellow type nerds will have fun browsing this online Wood Type Museum from Unicorn Graphics. The cuts and ornaments are especially fun!
Send notes from one iPhone to another using sound
The Tin Can app takes advantage of the iPhone’s audio ports to send and receive messages using sound. This deceptively benign app points the way to jailbreak-free hardware solutions for the iPhone –
Star Trek iPhone case mod
Check out this elegantly simple Star Trek iPhone case mod – A decade-old Star Trek pin with the pin part broken off many years ago. It’s been super glued to the back of my iPhone case (not to the iPhone) Andy C. [via iPhone Savior]
Knife wire inlay tutorial
In this tutorial, bladesmith Ben Potter shows how he inlays a Celto-Norse design in non-ferrous metals into a steel blade. You can see one of the tutorials of him making one of his incredible blades and hilt here. Celto-Norse Wire Inlay Tutorial [Sent by MAKE subscriber David DelaGardelle. Thanks, David!] More: HOW TO – Make […]
Augmented reality magic
Here’s an interesting vid of a close-up/card magician using augmented reality with his card tricks. Marco Tempest From the Maker Shed: MAKE, Volume 13 Our Price: $14.99 MAKE, Volume 13 is our magic issue, loaded with enough tricks to keep your friends and family entertained and mystified for months. Telekinetic pens! Levitating heads! Ghostly blocks! […]
Gutter gardens
Patti at New World Geek sent us a link to this post showing a clever use of rain gutter as a wall-borne gardening system. The photo was taken by Suzanne Forsling. It’s her gutter gardens, on her house in Juneau, AK. She took the picture for an article she wrote in the Juneau Empire called […]