If you’re like me, you probably missed the boat on the Lego Kingdoms Advent Calendar for the 2010 holiday season. Here in metro Detroit, they’re impossible to come by. That got me and Lego Maniac Rachel Hobson thinking – why don’t we make our own?! I took Rachel up on the challenge and decided to […]
Chris McVeigh brings us this adorable pint-sized holiday version of everyone’s favorite futuristic superweapon of interstellar genocide. You’ll need Lego Digital Designer to read his files. [via The Brothers Brick]
Bill Hammack’s video confection is especially sweet this week. Bill scored a vintage Delta “black box” on eBay and, in this week’s installment, tears it apart on camera to show you how they built ’em in the old days to stand up to “three-thousand gees and one-thousand degrees.” I just watched it, and I’m having a hard time resisting my ebullient urge to spoil the ending for you, so I’ll just shut up and let Engineer Guy take it away. [Thanks, Bill!]
Save the date: Botacon, a new conference for robots and the people who are creative near them, is happening next weekend at the Brooklyn Lyceum. If you’re at all interested in robots and the robot art world, it should be a great time: A new day is dawning for robotics. The tools of manufacturing have […]
By Jessica Wilson I know owls have been a fashionable bird for quite some time now, but I don’t think they have finished their reign as a quirky crafty bird just yet. This year I am hoping to make a good portion of my holiday gifts, and what better inspiration than this wide-eyed bird? When […]
Michael Klein of Saskatoon, SK, created this cool meter using a PC fan and styrofoam ball. A simple hack but a fun one.
(Photo by minifig, via Flickr Creative Commons) By Diane Gilleland I was excited to see this recent post on Craft Leftovers, in which Kristin examined what kinds of blogs she likes to read best, and then compared their main qualities to her own blog. She learned a lot in the process, and I think this […]
