25¢ent Wunderkammer
The 25¢ent Wunderkammer is a neat project on display at the Collaboration Room in Bloomington, IN.
Month: August 2010
Jeremy May’s jewelry made from books
Jeremy May’s jewelry made from books – Paper is many things: a carrier of text, illustration, history and emotion. Jeremy May has captured the beauty of paper via a unique laminating process. Littlefly jewellery is made by laminating hundreds sheets of paper together, then carefully finishing to a high gloss. The paper is selected and […]
DIY Van de Graaff generator
Mark Rehorst has an excellent set of instructions on how to build your own Van de Graaff generator.
Sound Bubbles
Musician and musical robot maker Charlie Williams created this fun art piece with a combination of OpenCV (an open-source computer vision toolkit that provides, among many things, facial recognition) and Processing. more info, including the opportunity to download the code and play with it yourself!
A visit to the HMS Beagle science store
While in town for the Kansas City Mini Maker Faire, we had the chance to visit the HMS Beagle, which is a gem of a science store located in Parkville, Missouri.
Add life to your SketchUp creations with Sketchyphysics
Like modeling your projects using Sketchup, but wish that you could go one step further and see if they work before spending time printing them? Well, you might want to have a look at Sketchyphysics. It’s a physics simulator that you can use to put your creations to life, and presumably work out the bugs […]
How-To: Fabric Prints With Tape
Jessica of How About Orange has been on a self-described “tape kick” lately, and I’m hoping she’ll keep it up. I posted her cute tape envelope gift bags on our Facebook page last week, and folks seemed to really love it. Now Jessica has taken her tape to fabric to create simple yet elegant prints. […]
