There is some serious cute happening in this line up of adorable baby monster amigurumi from Allison of Crafty is Cool. The best part is that they are all just simple decorative variations on the same basic pattern. The possibilities are endless! Related: Stop-Motion Amigurumi Ukulele Band Optimus Prime Amigurumi How-To: Crochet Amigurumi Exorcist Playset
Some crazy Swedish dudes have equipped their tricopter with 100-packs of fireworks and gone to hunt some hydrogen-filled balloons. As an added touch, they created a “defense sentry” that automatically launches rockets when it detects the tricopter. The rockets’ fuses are lit with match-heads ignited by a 12-ohm, 1/4W resistor with 12V going through it. […]
Lego for Adults author Martin Martin Hüdepohl’s new book Badass LEGO® Guns walks you through illustrated step-by-step instructions to build five real working guns. These aren’t your average lego shooters, but rather highly stylized tactical “weaponry” rendered using LEGO Technic components.
Reminder: Today is the final day for the robot plant contest, so be sure to get your entry in by 11:59 PST.
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics For a true maker, any stock of unused office supplies is perceived as a challenge to make some kind of construction. Here is an icosahedrally symmetric geodesic sphere made from ninety paper fasteners. It was built by Rolando Pontalti of Trento, Italy, who also made last week’s […]
Awesome. Angry Birds in Lego by Tsang Yiu Keung. [via Sprite Stitch] Related: Angry Birds Cake
While gluing cubes together may seem like a terribly limited method of building 3D models, their software is easy to use and some types of parts–like puzzles and puzzle pieces–are well-suited to this kind of modeling. Shown uppermost is a marble maze that our own Matt Mets produced with 3DTin and printed on a MakerBot. For their part, MakerBot Industries seems to be excited about the concept: 3DTIn has just added a direct export-to-Thingiverse feature to their interface.
