Arounna Khounnoraj of Bookhou has a tutorial for this simple and charming paper garland over at Poppytalk. She’s used pages of a store catalog to create the garland, but it could take on a whole new look with solid colored or special paper. It would be a great way to create simple decorations for holiday […]
Really the “plant hanger” thing is just an easy example. The cool bit here is the trick for making fixed three- and four-way joints in ball chain using the commonly-known “straight” couplings, plus one you may not already know about. You can use it to make snap-together ball-chain nets or meshes of any size or shape, for any reason you might want to.
Apart from the fact that the bricks and plates are open at their bottoms, and so the pieces always have one side that can’t be “smooth,” Lego is a pretty handy way to prototype interlocking solid puzzles. Many of these are based on cubic units, and can be built in Lego at a scale of 1 cube = 2 studs x 2 studs x 5 plates.
Eric Harshbarger, whose Lego hijinks we’ve featured a couple times before, has produced some lovely models based on this principle. Shown above are his 6-piece burr, checkered solid pentominoes, Soma cube, and deluxe polycube set. The awesomeness continues at Eric’s site.
You know that whole thing about switching the site over this AM and the fragility of meatbots? Funny story… — Gareth Hello everyone, I’ve been dragged out from beneath my desk to write this letter to you all, and then, I will crawl back there and not come out until I see my shadow, or […]
I see a knife, a fork, and a spoon. Plus some other implements about which I don’t really care to speculate. No flash drive, though. More deets over at The Fitzwilliam Museum. [via Neatorama]
As we mentioned on Friday, we’re moving the MAKE and CRAFT sites this weekend and switching to different blogging and commenting software. Comments are now turned off until the change-over is complete, sometime early Monday morning. Our service droids are working tirelessly around the clock — oh, wait, service droids won’t be available for another […]
This hobby rocketeer made a very simple camera mount and payload bay for this el cheapo Aiptek digital camera. Using an adjustable hole cutter tool, some plywood, Bondo, polycarbonate tubing, and some hardware, he built a simple but effective camera bay. Here’s a video from the rocket’s POV. Going Aiptek More: How-To: Make your own […]
