Brain Slug Cupcakes
These “official” brain slug cupcakes made an appearance at a Futurama cast table reading recently. They are similar to, yet distinctly different from the brain slug cupcakes we saw back in January. [via boingboing]
Month: July 2010
Jamming with a MakerBot
EFFALO is experimenting with using MakerBot printers in live performance.
How-To: Paper clone
Learn to make a detailed 3D paper clone of yourself with this tutorial by ddi7i4d. [via CRAFT]
Super high-power LED draws 8 amps, burns foam, plastic
This is the PT54 PhlatLight from Luminus Devices, Inc. It’s intended for use in portable video projectors. More photos of the setup here. [via Hacked Gadgets]
“Balloon accelerator” from Dyson bladeless fans
I haven’t much use for those fancy new “Air Multiplier” bladeless fans by British entrepreneur James Dyson, but this publicity stunt, in which dozens of the units are used to guide a neutral-buoyancy balloon around a complex warehouse “race track,” is admittedly pretty cool.
A better Geiger-Müller mood lamp
Ãœbermaker Michal Zalewski is at it again: MAKE #21 featured a project for a Geiger-Mueller mood lamp that changed colors in response to background radioactivity. Unfortunately, this project relied on hard-to-identify and somewhat pricey components, and the color transitions seemed rather harsh. So, here’s my completely different take on the same concept. Michal’s mood lamp […]
Massive Cardboard Fountain Sculpture
Kristena of Thimbly Things points us to this massive fountain sculpture created entirely from corrugated cardboard by artist Jimmy Grashow. The piece took nearly three years to create, and according to Kristena’s post, will be installed outside by Grashow in 2011 to be on display until it disintegrates.