Blood Fountains
The Blood Fountains were not for Halloween, but for a good cause! This Bloody Red Water Fountain was located in Unirii Boulevard, Bucharest, Romania, This was a “promotion†somehow for Hemophilia awareness.
Month: October 2010
Android oscilloscope
Yus of ProjectPronto built this excellent looking oscilloscope attachment for Android. Using a dsPIC microcontroller, he designed device capable of capturing two channels of data at 2MSps
CRAFT Pattern: Pumpkin Cozy
If you carve your Halloween pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern too early, it’ll be shriveled and rotten by the time of the big night, and that’s no treat! Knit this pumpkin cozy in the meantime. This project is great for practicing increases and decreases. Adjust the size by knitting fewer or more increase rows and easily […]
Halloween Bento Lunches
How cute is this sandwich from Cool Mom from Vancouver? Her Flickr account is packed with great Bento ideas, no matter the season. Via Just Bento Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool prizes. Costumes, decor, food — whatever you create for Halloween […]
3D print in silver at Shapeways
Shapeways now carries my material of choice for jewelry making: sterling silver. We are very proud to offer Sterling Silver as our latest production material! In the past we did a test with Silver Ring Poems and Cufflinks, but now you can order any design in brilliant shiny Silver, until at least November 7th. We’ll […]
Spooky candy bowl with a DIY capacitive touch sensor
We’ve blogged this before, but it’s a great project so we’re revisiting it. It’s a creepy candy bowl that uses an aluminum foil capacitor to trigger an array of LEDs and scare the kiddies. The guys who created this project sell a “NerdKit” — an ATmega168-controlled project board, but it’s easy to see how you […]
Time-lapse Rubik’s cube mosaic video
Entertaining video from YouTuber David Alvarez. I have a hard time imagining that he’s not working from a plan of some kind, but just from watching the video, it rather looks like he’s “free-handing” his Heath-Ledger-Joker mosaic. He just stands there, solves each cube to present the right pattern, and sets it in place, apparently without any kind of reference.