How-To: Light-Up Leggings
Instructables intern Carleyy made these LED leggings and entered them in the Soft Circuit contest over there. Super cute, like a constellation on your legs!
Year: 2010
Giant fluid dynamics sculpture made of robot-glued plastic balls
Um, wow. Geometric death frequency-141, as its called, was created by Czech artist Federico DÃaz. It consists of 420,000 plastic spheres, each of which appears to be about 1.5″ in diameter, glued together by industrial robot arms. The subject is a simulated liquid splashing inside an imaginary 50x20x20 foot box. Reportedly, DÃaz wrote the software to perform the simulation himself, and the software to drive the assembly process, as well. More details over at designboom. [via Gizmodo]
Mod Mood Quilt Along
Kim at True Up points us to this amazing quilt from Sherri Lynn Wood. She started a quilt along for the Mod Mood Quilt during the summer, but the archives are still active, so you can go back and learn how to make your own.
Embedding LEDs in plexiglas
The Synthetos guys experimented with embedding LEDs in laser-cut plexiglas, and the result is pretty sweet! We had this idea to embed a classic 5mm LED into clear acrylic in a way that would showcase the shape of the LED and also let the LED illuminate an etched design in the acrylic. We started by […]
Homemade Wooden Camera Knob
Matt Mets @ Make: Online points us to this find from the MAKE Flickr pool, a wooden camera knob!
IC squisher from skate bearings, acrylic scraps
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this handy homebrew jig from the UK’s oomlaut:
We’ve recently grown annoyed with the slightly bow legged stance DIP ICs ship with (it makes inserting them into sockets ever so frustrating). Rather than continue to spend longer than we liked on less than perfect results we decided to make ourselves a little jig to help out.
Details and laser-cutter files are available at the link above. This post from EMSL is cited by way of inspiration.
How-To: Hong Kong Seams
Kathleen of Grosgrain shares a video tutorial for making Hong Kong seams. If you are making anything with exposed seams, Hong Kong is the way to go. You can play them up with a contrasting color or pattern. She points out that Hong Kong seams take a little longer than other finishing techniques, but they […]