Plush Chainsaw and Severed Hand
This plush chainsaw and severed hand are great fun, and could possibly teach the young ones about tool safety (though probably not)! Made by Steff Bomb, who also has an Etsy shop. [via Geekologie]
Month: April 2010
Geek Chic: 9 bike accessories for makers
It’s springtime, which means it’s time to get back on your bike! Here are ten of my favorite bike accessories for utility, safety, and style. Got some bike projects to share? Post ’em up in the comments!
iFixit: Welcome to Repair 2.0
This interesting video — really a commercial for iFixit — has some fascinating things to say that would resonate with makers. Do you see yourself slaving over some 386 trying to get it to work? If iFixit creates a Wikipedia-like repair guide, will you contribute? Leave a comment with your thoughts. [Via bunnie’s blog] More: […]
Winners of Toe Up Socks for Everybody
Congratulations to Nicole from St. Joseph, MI, Patricia from Seattle, WA and Karen from Minneapolis, MN for each winning a copy of the book, Toe-Up Socks for Every Body by Wendy D. Johnson from our recent giveaway. More giveaways are coming soon!
Che Guevara in dice
Silicon Valley software engineer Ari Krupnik makes what he calls “pixel mosaics” as a hobby. Besides dice, he’s also used bullet casings and M&Ms. You may have seen Ari in this full-page ShopBot ad in MAKE 14. His rendering of Che Guevara, above, uses 400 black dice. He’s also done one of George Orwell. (“Maybe one day my prose can be as fluid as his,” says Ari–hear, hear!) This page includes another dice example and some good detail on Ari’s process.
Build robots, do experiments, blow stuff up
“Tax_Ninja” is a proud parent via Reddit. My kid designed his own scientist costume for career day (including the “to do list”). I feel like I’ve succeeded as a parent. Could be a cover for MAKE or a poster for a Calvin and Hobbes movie :) – Tax_Ninja if you see this, email me – […]
Full size Bender replica
Metalworker Des Bromilow built a “life” size replica of Bender Bending Rodriguez from Futurama, complete with cigar and beard that he never wears. Better still, he documented the process in meticulous detail in a series of posts on his blog. [Thanks, Nicholas!]
