Sad bookshelf is sad…
…because everyone’s got an iPad. Or a Kindle.
It’s the work of Waynesville, NC, designer Blaine Johnston, aka Red F Studios.
Month: November 2010
18′ Canoe from single sheet of plywood
Check out this amazing 18′ canoe made from a single sheet of plywood. Resembling a South American “pipante” dugout canoe, Finnish boat builder Hannu Vartiala designed and built his craft, “dug”, in an attempt to correct balancing issues he had with a previous design. He’s also put up instructions on his site so you can build your own. It sure is an impressive example of maximum use of materials with minimal effort.
Fun Theory Award winner rewards safe drivers with lottery tickets
Volkswagen’s Fun Theory Awards aims to incentivize socially useful behaviors by making them into games. Previously, their funds have produced a bottle recycling machine played like a video game, a trashcan that behaves like a bottomless pit, and a public staircase turned into a piano keyboard (See links, below).
MAKE featured on Pulse mobile newsreader app
Our friends at Alphonso Labs wrote to tell us that Make: Online is featured on their new, free, cross-platform version of the Pulse News reader. MAKE is one of the “Featured Sources.” To access it, after you’ve downloaded the app to your iPhone, iPad, or Android, hit the “+” button at the bottom of the […]
Five great Processing sites
Five inspirational Processing resources that will help you go further with your programming.
Make It Last Build Series: Data logger contest winners!
Thanks to everyone who entered the contest! We enjoyed judging your entries, congratulations to everyone who got their project working! Without further ado, here are the winners: The grand prize winner is Andrew Schamp, who built a data logging device to measure the temperature of his garden boxes over the winter. We look forward to […]
Cardboard surfboard on Thingiverse
Last year we posted about Mike Sheldrake’s stunning cardboard-ribbed surfboards, and, well, now he’s posted files on Thingiverse so you can build your own! He writes: The primary purpose of publishing these files is to enable the lowest levels of the board-building ecosystem (where I reside) to experiment with building these boards at the lowest […]
