And quite an effective one, two, judging by this video from YouTuber Designbyg. Rain Noe, who brought us last week’s build-your-own-couch post over on Core77, compares it favorably to a $200 professional upholstery foam saw.
Fat Monkey is a sculpture by Florentijn Hofman made of flip-flop sandals made as part of the Sao Paulo art and design conference Pixelshow. A little digging on Flickr reveals this in-progress shot, showing the underlying inflatable structure. [via Geekologie]
Lisa over at Polka Dot Cottage studio shows you how to measure out and create a custom-fitted coffee sleeve that not only makes your mug stylish and more environmentally friendly, but can also be used to cover up not-so-fabulous unsightly logos on freebie mugs.
Andrew Salamone follows up his now-famous Nerds portrait with a project for CRAFT on preserving candy portraiture: Let’s say that you were overzealous with your Halloween candy purchases this year (or maybe trick-or-treater traffic was down in your neighborhood) and now you have a big bag or two of candy that you don’t really want […]
For MAKE Volume 24 I had the good fortune to be able to write about a very cool phenomenon that has exploded in the maker scene — geeks launching their own weather balloons into the stratosphere, carrying coolers packing cameras and sensors. To be sure, these recent launches are not revolutionary, hams have been launching […]
Matt @ Make: Online points us to German artist Frank Bölter, who folded this giant origami boat, patterned after the traditional simple figure. Matt wonders where to get such big pieces of paper, but this one looks to me like it’s made from smaller pieces tiled together, what do you think? Pictured above in Canary […]
Gregg at Instructables made this assistive spoon using nothing more than thermoform plastic and, well, a spoon. One commenter points out that the package advises against moulding the plastic around body parts, but I wonder if that’s so that you don’t end up with a permanent (and therefore possibly dangerous to remove) bracelet or worse, […]
