Little Red Fox Necklace
Little Red Fox Necklace needs to jump out of my monitor and scamper over here to me! From the front page of etsy, straight into my heart. Silver and concrete are tricky materials that LuluBug has totally mastered.
Month: July 2010
THE ART OF THEO KAMECKE
For the months of July & August I helped put together “The Big Build – THE ART OF THEO KAMECKE” one of my favorite (living) artists… Theo Kamecke was for many years a film maker of award-winning documentaries whose subjects ranged from astronauts to coal miners, rodeo cowboys to nuclear scientists. He was in mission […]
How-To: Traveling Craft Kit
By Future Craft Collective How many times have you been out and about – on the road, at the beach or in the woods with a hankering to get your craft on but no supplies handy? Which always feels like such a shame, since nature, travel or even being stranded in a train station can […]
All-terrain bicycle
Bike hacker Peter Wagner, whose work has graced this blog a zillion times, has created this aquatic(?) bike equipped with flippers for driving through water and mud. Stock fork surpassed by adding rear 2/3’s of a full suspension mountain bike as the springer front end. Double rimmed drum brake 16″ laced to 26″ alloy, get […]
Switches designed to gross you out
Among other delights, there’s a switch that retreats into its enclosure when your finger approaches, a switch that extrudes a stream of snotty goo when pressed (and retracts it when released), and (my personal favorite) a hairy switch with a pilomotor reflex that makes the hairs stand up when you try to touch it. Squick! [via Hack a Day]
Plywood drumbot jams with human
Steve Averill’s drummer may not be much for conversation between gigs, but I’m guessing his low payrate makes up for it. Steve built the “Spruce Deuce” robot drummer using birch plywood, servo motors, and a Highly Liquid MD24 … hmm, wonder if he’s any good at loading the van.
How-To: Multi-face pedal
Randy Sarafan made this “Fuzz of 100 Faces” guitar pedal: For a long time I have been a fan of the Multi-Face Pedal and have been having fun exploring the different nuances of fuzz by swapping around parts on a breadboard. However, I wanted to make a more permanent fuzz pedal that I could use […]