Lego tea cups model
Adam Quest’s tea cup midway ride, featured at Brickfair ’10, is awesome in so many ways. Great model!
Year: 2010
LilyPad Arduino Pillow
This is awesome, just straight up awesome. Angela Sheehan posted her giant LilyPad pillow in the CRAFT pool, and it’s just about the best ever. Check out her blog, Soft Circuit Saturdays for more deets, great photos, and a comical side-by-side size comparison.
Papercut Illustration of Volcanic Activity
Being a science and space geek, I’m particularly charmed by this awesome papercut illustration from Jayme McGowan of Roadside Projects. I had the pleasure of working with New Scientist magazine to create this image for an article about volcanic activity – specifically, how it can be triggered by meteorites.
Cathy of California in NY Times Blog
Congrats to our friend Cathy Callahan for her feature today in the New York Times blog. I love that writer Brooke Hodge called her a cross between Martha Stewart and Rhoda Morgenstern. So true!
Shop Tools 101 at Madagascar Institute, Brooklyn
Photograph by Eric Ogden for a Madagascar Institute profile in Popular Mechanics On Thursday, August 12, 2010 (7:00PM – 9:00PM), in Brooklyn, NY, our friends at the Madagascar Institute are doing a workshop called Shop Tools 101. This two hour class, which SHOULD be a pre-requisite for most Madagascar Institute classes, will teach you the […]
How-To: Build a “rumble pipe”
In this KipKay video, Kip shows you how to make a simple sound effects thingy out of some PVC pipe, a piece of drum skin, and a spring. Rumble Pipe SFX Fun!
Kid-Illustrated Recipes
I love the charming drawings and writing for the blog, Kids Draw and Cook, where kids can submit their illustrated recipes for publication. Pictured above, Skrambld Eggs by Charlotte Turk. [via Geninne’s Art Blog] Related: Illustrated Recipes Kokblog – Illustrated Recipe Blog