Tho Bui writes: I’ve been toying with homemade steadicams lately. The gimbal joint usually gives people a fit. The roundness of the acorn nut fits into the indentation of the opposite screw/nut and freely rotates. More: DIY steadicam, version five
This hamster home, hacked from an IKEA Expedit bookcase, is amazing. Martina created the hamster mansion complete with loads of space for running, and even a compartment filled with bedding in which her pet can burrow (all while she watches through a glass window). I better make sure our pet rat, Reese, doesn’t see this […]
Supposedly from the personal wunderkammer of Austinite video game bazillionaire Richard Garriott. Some of the other items are NSFW. [via Propnomicon]
Today I’m at MIT visiting the Media Lab’s High-Low Tech (HLT) group, headed up by Leah Buechley. I’m hanging out with her and her grad students Hannah Perner-Wilson, David Mellis, and Emily Lovell, as well as e-textile education maven Kate Hartman. More later this week including video, but for now check out mine and Kate’s […]
Cheryl Sleboda wrote in with her awesome project: I just wanted to drop a line to say thanks for the tutorials and info on Craft about LEDs and soft circuitry. I got a Make Conductive Booster Pack and used some blue LEDs to add to a mini quilt I made depicting a “cute” taningia danae […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Rob Cruickshank repurposed the spherical printhead from an old IBM Selectric typewriter for use in a new gallery installation. Under strobed illumination, the Selectric’s ‘typeball‘ certainly is hypnotic – beautiful, in a sort of William S. Burroughs way. Rob’s kinetic sculpture will be on viewable at Toronto’s Fly Gallery until […]
No, they haven’t been photoshopped. Brody S. made this awesome black-and-white Santa suit for San Francisco Santa Con 2009. [via Dude Craft]
