Tokyo hackerspace fundraiser party is this Saturday
This Friday, the Tokyo Hackerspace is hosting a huge workshop/auction/dinner/party.
Year: 2010
How-To: Plush Kirby
Geek Crafts points us to this tutorial from Serena of Seremeres for making a plush Kirby.
How-To: Paper Garland
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 […]
Make: Projects – Ball-chain plant hangers
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.
Lego interlocking solid puzzles
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.
And now, another word from our Director of Technology
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 […]
Roman Multitool from 3rd Century CE
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]
