Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from user huebner5000. He quotes an unnamed source:
This Cuban chug arrived Wednesday, December 16th, 2009. The chug held 17 Cubans who are now legal U.S. citizens. The chug, we were told, left Cuba at 5am December 14th and landed at Dry Tortugas at 2am December 16th.
It’s all made from scrap metal and junk. The hull, reportedly, is flattened corrugated roofing material. There’s one more picture here.
Blair Neal of Troy, NY, wrote in to share this excellent project: A demo video of my installation that uses an old overhead projector, a camera, some markers and a laptop and turns it all into a playful art piece. It is essentially an inverse color organ that you can play like a player piano. […]
Graffiti Research Lab Houston writes: In this document we will give a high level overview of what is needed in order to implement “Texas Big Face.” To implement facial transfers both for sculptures and persons you need to accomplish several steps. Setting up a system that keeps the persons face stable, a system to capture […]
Tomorrow marks the 3rd meeting of Make:PGH, Pittsburgh’s DIY group, and the presentations are going to be chock-full of crafts! First up is Susan Felix and her crochet amigurumi creatures: Susan Felix has an MS in Mechanical Engineering, but she doesn’t actually use it. She lives in Pittsburgh’s East End with her fiancé and she […]
Folks have been all abuzz over Betty White’s performance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend. If you missed the show, you can watch it online via the NBC web site. Abbey at Renegade Handmade even made a Betty White cake for the occasion. Pair it with the Ode to Betty White cards from Vickie […]
Having a hard time figuring out how to affix your GPS unit to a secure spot on your dash? Crappy suction cup mounts always falling off? Sandbag mounts sliding around all over the place? If you don’t mind sticking things in your HVAC vents, you might consider trying something similar to this custom ShapeLock GPS mount from Portuguese maker Rui Cabral.
Another creative device from Mr. Gijs Gieskes, this time converting MIDI note data to playback control of online video – An arduino usb hid keyboard emulator is used to convert midi note messages to keypresses. This can be useful to control online videos with midi, in combination with the youtube mixer (uses the youtube javascript […]
