Here’s a great opportunity for free Maker Faire tickets, help us spread the word! Post flyers and place postcards in your local community (suggested locations listed below) and earn two Adult Maker Faire day passes worth $50. It’s easy. We will send you a packet of 25 flyers and 200 postcards and you go to […]
Miniature shrimp are adhered together to form Shrimplace, a piece by Tara Bursey. [Thanks, Garth!]
Check out Doctor Laser, a nicely done mini-documentary about one of the last remaining laser holography artists in the world. In the heyday of holography, back in the 1970s, there were four schools dedicated to the holographic arts around the world, and five studios in New York City alone. Today, there are only a few […]
A friend of mine posted a link to this tutorial for covering a text book with a paper grocery bag over on Facebook yesterday, and it reminded me how much fun I had covering my books at the beginning of the school year. Paper bags make the perfect blank slate for doodles or whatever other […]
Throw a stone at any gathering of makers, and you’re likely to hit somebody who owns a set of DIY-savant Dave Gingery’s classic books on building your own machine shop by casting scrap aluminum, melted in a charcoal-powered bucket furnace, into sand molds formed by wooden patterns. I’ve owned a set myself, for more than a decade, and “at least starting on the lathe,” which is the first tool in the series, has been on my someday list since the first time I ever saw the books advertised in Lindsay Technical Books’ classic ad in Popular Science.
The quintessentially Dutch, singularly functional, aesthetically innovative, and yet alluringly strange table in question is by designer Wouter Scheublin. “Walking Table,” as it is cleverly named, is human-powered, incorporating a mechanical linkage that converts gentle lifting and pushing of the top into oscillations of the legs that move the table across the floor with little effort. [via NOTCOT]
Yup. Somebody–specifically Japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki–went to the trouble of building a motorboat shaped like a zipper pull just for the sake of the aerial sight gag of its wake suggesting a parting zipper. And just for the record, this is clearly a jacket-zipper-pull motorboat, not a pants-zipper-pull motorboat, so let’s not have any off-color jokes about what strange creatures might be surfacing in its wake. [via Dude Craft]
