“How does the product use our time?”… CastOven is a future microwave oven, which plays a You Tube movie clip to fit into your cooking time. Watching movies, playing video games, and browsing web pages are fun, but all of them require certain amount of time of us to spare. For example, one would hesitate […]
Pysanky are beautiful and intricate Ukranian Easter eggs. I found a great tutorial on rejuquar.com for making your own that makes it look easy!
Artist Eleanor Pigman creates amazing portraits with tiny seed beads. Along with Abraham Lincoln show above, she’s created portraits of Mother Teresa, Laura Ingalls Wilder and more. Her seed bead portrait of Obama was one of 30 finalists in the MoveOn.org Manifest Hope competition. [via Hand Embroidery Network]
Our BFFs over at iFixIt went medieval on the just-released Nintendo DSi XL. They sort of looked at it as practice, keeping themselves in shape and head-sharp for this Saturday’s iPad release. You know they’ll be the first in line, screwdrivers and spudgers twitching in their hands. On the DSi XL teardown, Kyle writes: Nintendo […]
Writing from the Fab Academy at AS220 Labs, Jenine Bressner shares the technique she uses for getting just the right amount of solder and freeing up one hand
Math Monday: Paper plate geometry By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics The raw material for making mathematical constructions can be found all around you. Bradford Hansen-Smith makes intricate geometric sculptures entirely from paper plates. The above icosahedral form is assembled from eighty folded plates that interlock. This helical form is constructed from 128 […]
Artist Steve D’Angelo sent us a link to the video of this lovely electronic sculpture he made, an homage to arcade video games. He says that our very own Make: Electronics was an inspiration/guide for him. Nice to see the book is inspiring real-world results. Steve Gallery In the Maker Shed: Make: Electronics Our Price: […]
