The Free Art & Technology Lab is going to Berlin for the Transmediale festival next week, and in preparation for rolling in style, I’ve worked up a tutorial for appliqueing letters across the hood, including a downloadable patten for the letters. The crew will be workshopping this project at the festival, and I’ll Skype in […]
Here’s a video of a scratch-built “foamy” R/C model of a seaplane that can actually take off and land on water. “Foamies” is the name given to the class of model planes built out of the insulation foam that can be found at home/hardware stores. ModelAero also sells a kit version of this build. Polaris […]
I probably should have called this post Keep Calm and Curry On in light of our earlier one (see “Keep Calm and Carry Yarn“)! I absolutely love curry in all its forms (even if it is murder to get out of your clothes), but I never knew it was so varied and present in so […]
This is what I’m having for dinner tonight. I stayed up way too late last night working on a project for tomorrow, and overslept breakfast. To make up for it, I’m diving into hearty, creamy, comfort food wonderland. GingerBeat is a great vegetarian food blog, and while the recipe for the soup originally came from […]
If you’re interested in doing gel electrophoresis at home, there are certainly easier ways to get a gel casting kit, but I wanted to throw some more props at Thingiverse user cathalgarvey, who has recently also brought us a printable microlathe and a printable centrifuge attachment for a motor tool. He’s fast making a name for himself as a designer of practical printables. Might I suggest a printable microtome next?
Here’s a neat concept idea by Jinsun Park, a physical Color Picker.
By Jessica Wilson Here’s a fun and easy project that is multipurpose. Use it to display your favorite fabrics and to keep track of your notes, photos and other bits of inspiration. I got my cork trivets from Ikea but you can find them online and in various retail shops. For smaller fabric scraps and/or […]
