Slightly off-topic, here, but I see lots of these optical illusion posts on the web, and although some of them are pretty impressive, this one borders on voodoo. I had to run my mouse pointer over the blue traces a few times to persuade myself. I’ve overlaid some big yellow circles on the original image, which you can see, below, after the jump, to save you the trouble. [via Neatorama]
In this periodic series of “Letters,” Shawn Wallace, member of AS220, the Providence, RI community arts and technology space, shares his experiences with the Fab Academy, a distributed learning collaborative, built on the infrastructure of the Fab Lab network. — Gareth Interfacing microcontrollers and applications By Shawn Wallace The Fluxamaphonic, a physical interface to a […]
In this video, our R/C covermower from MAKE Volume 22, out today, gets a dumptruck add-on. More vids of the Lawnbot on J.D. Warren’s YT channel. From the pages of MAKE: MAKE Volume 22, Remote Control Everything Automate your world with remote control. From pet care to power outlets, from toys to telepresence, we’ll show […]
Seller Everything Tiny manufactures these itty-bitty hand-blown glass display domes, with press-fit bases, to go with their awesome TinySaur kits, one of which (the T-Rex) is shown above, with tweezers, for scale. But there’s no reason you couldn’t co-opt one to display some other tiny, delicate prize.
Math Monday: Hexagonal stick arrangements By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Interpenetrating hexagonal arrangements of sticks are a challenging mathematical exercise to assemble from pencils. Four different directions are used, as color-coded here. The above sculpture, 72 Pencils, has tiny dots of glue to hold itself together, but you can easily use eight […]
A glass-top table supported by a group of what appear to boulders may be to your taste. If so, that’s cool. This one from Brazilian designer Domingos Tótora is called the Agua Table. But even if not, I thought the process of making the “rocks” from a paste of old cardboard boxes and glue was pretty interesting. I speculate that Sr. Totora actually started out by experimenting with the cardboard-paste process, figured out he could make fake boulders using it, then cast about for awhile trying to find a use for the cool fake boulders he’d just taught himself to make. Slapping a piece of tempered glass on it and calling it a coffee table has worked for a lot of other designers… [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
Joby Elliott made this DIY overhead kitchen rack using about $40 worth of parts from Home Depot.
