The next Make: television video highlights an InvenTeam from the Garfield-Palouse High School in Palouse, Washington. They found a need to adapt large-scale agriculture equipment for different ability levels. With the help of some skilled engineering mentors and a lot of hard work on their part, they created a simple, effective, and useful invention call […]
I love looking at inspiration boards, and this one is from CRAFT reader Emily Hughes Armour’s craft space. Emily was inspired by our organization month and took four Sundays in a row to clean and rearrange! More photos are posted up on her blog, Hazel & Henna. Check out more craft spaces from CRAFT readers […]
Freya’s Cabin is constructed from CNC-cut plywood layers pressed together, with each layer having a cutout shape like a stage set. The structure is held together with glue and tension rods that fix through pre-drilled holes in every layer. Some of the layers, including the balustrade of the lake-side front, are clear acrylic. This allows […]
Knit up this binary code coffee cozy that says “hot hot” in it’s pattern of ones and zeros by Kathy of Kat Knits.
This dude is Hans Christian Ørsted, whose 1820 discovery that electric current produced magnetic fields was, supposedly, entirely accidental: He was preparing a voltaic pile for a lecture demonstration and there happened to be a compass lying nearby. He has become a sort of mascot for the Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR), a new open-access journal initiative that hopes to provide a forum for life and computer scientists to publish results they lucked into and maybe can’t fully explain. From their website:
More component storage, here I come! Check out these modular printable boxes by Thingiverse user Domonoky. [Thanks, Nathan!]
Flickr users fadedlines6 and catatonicpatient created this set of cookies inspired by Lady Gaga’s wardrobe. Can you identify all the outfit replications? [via @broylesa]
