Month: January 2011

Macrame, Circa 1977

Awful Library Books is a blog where Michigan public librarians Mary and Holly discuss outdated books that are getting pulled from the library shelves. One of their picks is Macrame Accessories, from 1977. I’m not sure the belt for shy hot pants wearer would really work as advertised.

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Lego ghost trap replica

Lego ghost trap replica

Flickr user Alex Eylar made this amazing LEGO replica of a Ghostbusters ghost trap. If you’re not familiar with this this piece of equipment, the site Ghostbusters Fans has a primer for you. No word yet if Alex plans on making a matching Ecto Containment Unit. [via Gizmodo] More: Ghostbusters proton pack with friggin’ lasers […]

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Hubcap viperfish

Hubcap viperfish

We have actually covered the work of British hubcap sculptor Ptolemy Elrington a couple times before (see below), but I couldn’t resist posting again when I saw this viperfish sculpture, which appears among others in a gallery at The Telegraph.

My thought for the day? Viperfish are awesome. That is all.

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Turn a mouse pad into an Ardunio-controlled drum pad

Turn a mouse pad into an Ardunio-controlled drum pad

Our friend Riley Porter, of Synthetos and TinyG fame, has posted a wonderful little project on Make: Arduino and Make: Projects. It uses an old mouse pad and a piezo sensor to create a drum pad input device. He’s even coded up the beginnings of a little game in Processing that counts your beats and […]

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