3D-printed, rubber-band-powered gearbox
Michael Curry of Kansas City, MO, designed and printed this sweet gearbox for the rubber band challenge on Thingiverse. Brilliant! [Via the Thingiverse blog]
Year: 2010
How-To: Blythe Snuggie
Claire of Absolutely Small shares this hilarious tutorial for making a Snuggie for your Blythe doll. Download the pattern, grab some fleece and get your Blythe all cozied up for the winter! More: Rerooting Blythe Doll Hair – CRAFT Video Podcast terling Silver Blythe Ring Inside-Out Blythe Guts Costume
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.
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.
