The Tactile Metronome kit from the Maker Shed is a tap-controlled or tap-tempo metronome and “beat looper.” “Syncopation machine.” “Metronome with an attitude.” You tap the piezo speaker to set the rhythm.
I’m almost embarrassed to admit the number of accidentally-bleached or horribly stained t-shirts in my closet. I guess I should be more embarrassed that I still just wear them as-is and try to ignore the fact that they are obviously messed up. I love how Meg of Elsie Marley transformed two of her accidentally-bleached t-shirts […]
If the shapes of these beautifully colorful vases look familiar to you, it’s no surprise. German artist, Markus Linnenbrink, takes items from the recycling bin and transforms them into artful and practical objects by layering them in colorful resin. The Dortmund-based sculptor calls his latest work Gestaltkunstwerk; roughly translated, it means “formed artwork” and is […]
And not in a good way. I have blogged about scary Lego before, but the capacity of the AFOL (“Adult Fan of Lego”) community to twist everybody’s favorite happy Danish building toy into Bosch- and/or Giger-esque abominations has pushed darker boundaries since then. This godawful* thing by prolific and talented builder Mike Foy is just called “The Void,” and, if I may suggest, belongs on the cover of some trendy modern edition of a very old and very evil book full of unspeakable things. [via The Brothers Brick]
Instructables user jtwanderlust has plans up for making your own bed frame from easy-to-find pipe and fittings. It comes apart easily for those of us who move quite often! If only my Ikea frame did the same…
Thanks to the prodigious growth of computer storage media over the past couple of decades, most people have a pretty good command of the metric (SI) prefixes for big numbers: a kilobyte is a thousand bytes, a megabyte is a million, a gigabyte is a billion, and a terabyte is a trillion. Some folks are already making noises about “petabyte”–or one quadrillion byte–storage media. After that comes “exabyte,” which, of course, would be a quintillion bytes. And beyond that you get into “Marx brothers” country. More than one wag has suggested that the as-yet-unnamed metric prefix to denote one octillion somethings-or-other should be “groucho” or “harpo.”
How awesome are these geektastic cross-stitch patterns from Krupp of Mr. X-Stitch? These are just two of several new patterns introduced in the Mr. X-Stitch Etsy shop. Check out the others that celebrate more Dr. Who fun as well as a few new additions to Kittyzilla’s Internet Meme series.
