Month: January 2010

Shelter 2.0: Distributed manufacturing for emergencies

Bill writes in to tell about Shelter 2.0, a fabbed structure system that aims to leverage distributed manufacturing and shipping to provide durable emergency structures to situations of need.

The Shelter 2.0 was designed by Robert Bridges as a CNC-cut emergency shelter in the Guggenheim/Sketchup contest in 2009. The idea was that it would be partway between a tent and a real house and could be dis-assembled and re-assembled using some interesting CNC-cut joinery to make it easy.

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Puschino Astronomical observatory

Puschino Astronomical observatory

Can you hear me Major Tom? Amazing photos from the Puschino Astronomical observatory @ English Russia… The first initiative to create big radio telescopes in the USSR is dated 1951. They were intended to observe the sun radiation and radiation of other space sources on centimeter and millimeter waves. The displays appear to be nixie […]

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Crochet Yoda Hut

This crocheted yoda hut from Craftster user Jatoha is full of pure awesome. And can you believe she just freehanded it? She made it for her daughter to use with her Star Wars action figures (and yes, that’s Obi Wan standing in for Luke) and I’m wishing I could finally get the hang of crochet […]

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