One hundred triangles stool
Riccardo Bovo designed this stool comprised of an algorithmically generated series of triangles, laser-cut and zip tied together. [via Pratt on Tumblr]
Day: October 11, 2010
Fabric Globes with Spoonflower
When I spotted these plush globes in the CRAFT Flickr pool , was curious how Spoonflower user Weavingmajor created the flat printed fabric. Well it turns out that it’s a pattern/design you can get printed on Spoonflower, the you-upload-it-we-print-it service, with the sewing pattern right on the fabric. What a clever way to put together […]
Your Comments
And we’re back with our seventeenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Over on Twitter, Justin Craft is ‘fixing’ a toy for his kids: Weekend project time, inspired by @make. Hacking my kid’s sadly low-powered race track. (photo) Math Campbell has […]
Asian-Inspired Party Roundup From My Paper Crane
Heidi Kenney seems to always throw the most awesome parties. Her cakes and decorations and invitations never fail to impress me, and I love that she puts so much thought and care into every details of the event. Her latest party was and Asian-inspired shindig, and she’s collected all her resources in one handy post. […]
Android Market on Archos Gen 8 tablets
On of the big concerns with some of the low cost Android tablets hitting the streets recently is the lack of an Android Market app to browse and download other apps with. If you’re running an eighth generation Archos tablet, you now have an option of installing the Android Market app. After installing gApps4Archos.apk, it’s just a few clicks to install the Gmail app, Google Maps, Google Talk and Google Calendar.
Told You So: Whale snot takes Ig Nobel
As you may have heard, last week in Stockholm a bunch of lucky stiffs talented, hard-working scientists (and one fiction author) got to meet the King of Norway. Science-y highlights include the Physics prize, which went to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for some fancy tricks with carbon (specifically graphene); the Medicine prize, to Robert G. Edwards for inventing the test tube baby; and the Chemistry prize, to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Akira Suzuki for, ah, some other fancy tricks with carbon (plus palladium). That’s all well and good.