As I was scrolling through Tumblr yesterday, I stopped cold on this image. I recognized it immediately from one of my all-time favorite movies, Better Off Dead. I only wish a giant wooden chalk holder went along with it! I’m putting this down as one of my favorite pieces of fan art ever.
Jonathan Barclay of Twin Cities Maker has been experimenting with dyeing the output of our MakerBot using Rit dye, a cheap crockpot, and a microwave. Twin Cities Maker ordered 5 lbs of white abs along with our makerbot. I’m aware that the MakerBot Store currently sells colored abs, but 5 lbs of white is nearly […]
I’m sure we’ve all thought, hey, wouldn’t it be cool to have a screen overhead while we laid down on a couch or bed. YouTube user dim3m thought so, too, and went on to build an iPad wall mount stand using a VESA TV mount, some acrylic, clipboard clips, some PVC tubing, and a set of cheap speakers for about $40.
Brain Dereu of Hollow Spy Coins has done it again. As if the solid stainless steel version of their original aluminum dead drop spike I recently blogged about weren’t cool enough by itself, the Dereu family is now offering the same product machined in solid freaking titanium. Incredibly, they’re selling it for exactly the same price as the stainless steel version.
Here’s the source code for my Arduino + PING))) + 7-Segment Shield ultrasonic distance sensor. It is the progenitor of my Arduino Nerf sentry gun code, which I’ll be posting soon.
James over at Cinemassacre undertook to find out how many times you could copy VHS footage before it became completely unwatchable. It’s not exactly a well-controlled experiment: He doesn’t report the equipment he used to do the copying or the kind of tape involved and, somewhat annoyingly, he does not actually report the number of clips he spliced together to make his 3-minute video. Determining at what point the noisy footage is “unwatchable” is also sort of arbitrary. Still, interesting to watch. I personally counted 63 generations before the footage decayed into meaningless audiovisual noise. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
Italian design studio Carnovsky unveiled this concept wallpaper, overprinted with differently-colored complimentary patterns that can be selectively displayed by shining red, green, or blue light on the surface. I think they should add a special super-secret UV-reactive layer, too. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
