I love to go to the electronics store. The one in my neighborhood is called HSC, and it’s a warehouse of random parts and pieces. They have entire aisles dedicated just to switches, another just for attachments, and an entire room of wire. I have been known to wander the store for an hour, just […]
Just add laser and camera! The MakerScanner is a completely open source 3D-scanner and the perfect complement to a MakerBot or other 3D printer. Every one of the scanner’s plastic parts can be printed on a MakerBot or other 3D printer!
More hankie love here on the blog today. I love these awesome custom-made handkerchief wedding invitations for photographer, Younga. The invitations were designed by Kellie Anderson, who documented the design and creation process over on her blog. It’s fantastic to see how she translated a jumble of google maps and photographs of landmarks in to […]
Sfgirbybay introduces us to these coat hangers called Abitudini made by artist Anotello Fusè. Fusè took chair backs from vintage chairs and gave them a new life by adding wire hangers. (Another great wire hanger refashion!) The hangers are available at Resign. Gorgeous!
Well, OK, it’s actually a prosthesis. And I stole the Terminator joke from Minnesotastan over at Neatorama. This object is one of literally thousands of remarkable items in the online Brought to Life exhibit at the UK’s Science Museum, where it is labeled, apparently incorrectly, as a “right” arm. What is it with surgeons confusing left and right appendages?
The Maker Show is an exhibition at Otis College of Art and Design. The title is “MAKE:CRAFT” and is described as follow: Inspired by the cultural currents represented in the popular magazines MAKE and CRAFT published out of Northern California, MAKE:CRAFT includes contemporary artists who combine handmaking and building techniques to create, engineer and hack […]
I’ve been on a big hand-written letter kick lately (finding a box full of letters from high school and college will do that to a gal) so I’m loving these adorable printable notecards that are based on vintage hankie designs from Amy Moss of Eat Drink Chic.
