How-To: Cookbook Splatter Guard
Instructables user bunnstuff shows us how to make a clear plastic “book apron,” or cookbook splatter guard, useful for keeping your recipes and cookbooks clean and dry while you cook your heart out.
Year: 2010
How artificial eyes are made
Artificial eyes are amazing! In this How it’s Made video, the creator uses takes an alginate impression of a patient’s eye and then refines and casts it in acrylic, affixing a hand-painted iris. They even use silk threads to give the look of blood vessels. The video’s a little gross, but completely fascinating. More: Eye […]
How-To: Wool Felt Christmas Tree Wrist Pin Cushion
I’m thinking this wool felt Christmas tree wrist pin cushion project from Laura of Spool would be great to start making as easy gifts for the holiday season. This is a super cute way to get in the spirit of the season – a festive wrist pincushion to help with your holiday crafting! It also […]
USB Dead Drops (video)
Artist and Eyebeam resident Aram Bartholl’s USB Dead Drops project is raising lots of discussion in the security and file sharing communities. The project release is now in full swing with this video showing how the USB drives were installed in different places around NYC. Aram writes: ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to […]
iPad portrait light array
When I first saw Jessee Rosten’s iPad portrait light array I will admit that I wrote it off as a goofy publicity stunt (which it seems to have done well at), but further analysis may have altered my opinion a bit. Who, in their right mind, would waste that much money on something that could be accomplished with better gear? Who cares? Seriously, if you’re putting together a photo shoot with a bunch of friends and you need some interesting lighting, why not borrow everyone’s iPad and mount them on some plywood for an interesting effect? Is it the best use of the technology? No way! Did it produce an interesting effect? I think so.
Impressive laser-cut wooden Mars rover model
Back in April I blogged about the plans and kits for this and other elaborate laser-cut wooden models available from WoodMarvels.com. At the time, I snarked a bit about how all the images on their website are actually CG renderings, implying that, with models that complicated, it’d be nice to have some reassurance that somebody, somewhere, had put together a real physical version in the real physical world before giving up the green. Well, MAKE pal and dynamite CNC contractor Angus Hines sprung for a set of plans, cut the parts on his own equipment, and took these cool photos of the assembled model on red clay to suggest the Martian surface. [Thanks, Angus!]
Gaming for a Cure, Part II
In Breakthroughs to Cures, happening all day November 9th, you are launched into the future and asked how you would prevent major health catastrophes if you had unlimited resources and support from the President of the good ol’ U.S. of A.
