How-To: Sew a Bike Cap
Get the sun out of your cycling eyes with Panda Face’s cycling cap pattern, spotted by Gareth @ Make: Online.
Month: June 2010
Tricks of the trade: Twisting wire bundles
Tricks of the trade: Twisting wire bundles @ EMSL – A common problem that you may come across when building “a box” to do something– whether a one-off gizmo or bona fide scientific instrument –is the rats nest of wires. A similar problem occurs when you need to run a bunch of basic wires out […]
Tensegrity sculpture with 3D-printed beams
Ryan Meuth of Phoenix, AZ, wrote in to share his tensegrity structure. This weekend I built a tensegrity structure as a demonstration of principles of balancing tension and compression in structures for one of the courses I’m teaching. I’m fascinated by the aesthetic of these structures – all triangles and edges, but somehow magical as […]
How-To: Silk Ribbon Embroidered Pillow Cases
I teach a silk ribbon embroidery class at the Stitch Lab here in Austin, and I’m always on the lookout for fun and modern applications of the craft to share with my students, as some ribbon embroidery can be a bit …. well … frumpy. I love the simplicity of this set of ribbon embroidered […]
Laser living room set
UK design collective UnitedVisualArtists created this careful arrangement of lasers, mirrors, beam splitters, and other optical elements to produce a Tron-y room full of intangible furniture as part of an exhibit called Speed of Light. I hope they set up their next display in a church so I can blog it under the headline “Pew-pew-pews.” [via Geekologie]
3-axis shadow-casting MIT block
Thingiverse user tshannon was inspired by the cover of Douglas Hofstadter’s famous book Gödel, Escher, Bach (Wikipedia) to create this one-piece letter-block that casts the shadows in the shape of the letters M, I, and T when illuminated along all three perpendicular axes.
The worlds only working pallophotophone
A while back Schenectady Museum curator Chris Hunter came across some old pallophotophone recordings from radio station WGY. “What’s a pallophotophone?”, you might ask. Also known as the RCA Photophone, it’s an early recording device developed by GE researcher Charles Hoxie. GE Engineer Russ DeMuth, recreates a pallophotophone from Hoxie’s original design and manages to extract some rather interesting recordings.
