Lego Bento Box
This is my kind of bento box. Flickr user meltong99 created the Lego-inspired lunch for her son who was at Lego camp. She created a few more Lego bento boxes that she shares on her blog, All About the Kids. [via Lego Express]
Month: October 2010
Interlocking puzzle bins on Thingiverse
These cool interlocking jigsaw-puzzle shaped cans from Thingiverse user Zydac may be the best example, at least in terms of looks, of objects designed for printing on a MakerBot, RepRap, or other small FDM-type printer.
Cute LED costume
AnnMarie Thomas (whose work has appeared in MAKE Magazine as well as Make: Online in the past, links below) created this adorable LED costume for her daughter. If you can’t figure out how to make it by looking at the pic, she created an Instructable to guide you. (I love the anode/cathode leggings!) More: Guest […]
New in the Maker Shed: DrinkShield for Arduino
The DrinkShield is an open source Breathalyzer kit for the Arduino. It’s a great starter kit that was originally designed for Hackerspace parties. The DrinkShield can work as a standalone breathalyzer or you can connect it to a computer for and interact directly with the results. Source code repository comes with a game to use […]
Land Carpet
This would have been so fun to have as a kid. I even had a little plastic tractor with a detachable pull-cart! A multi-colored and leveled carpet made to look like aerial views of farm land. I bet you could make something like this with carpet squares and an X-Acto.
Rube Goldberg-esque room
Daniel Heggarty from St. Louis, MO, wrote in to share his gloriously convoluted machine. This room was constructed with the humor of Rube Goldberg cartoons in mind at the St. Louis City Museum. Developed organically, the room started with one exercycle on the bench and the thought, “What can this become?” From there, visual and […]
How-To: Stormtrooper helmet from milk jugs
Not sure you could make one that fit an adult this way, but nonetheless a very cool bit of trash-hacking from Filth Wizardry. [via CRAFT]