Hand-Cranked Goat Automaton Kicks the Bucket
Jim Hooker of Minneapolis, MN, carved this kicking goat. It was his first attempt at creating a wooden automaton. [Thanks, Daniel!]
Month: March 2011
How-To: Set Up a Basement PCB Fab & Use It To Make a POV Business Card
This Instructable from Jared Foster doesn’t just show you how to make his cool persistence-of-vision business card. It takes you through the construction of a circulating etch tank, the modification of a laminating machine to make a stencil applicator, the assembly of a controller to turn a toaster into a reflow oven, and the cobbling-together of a vacuum pickup tool for SMT components. And then you get some practice using all that cool stuff making a POV business card. It even comes with obligatory American Psycho allusions.
How-To: Photographic Quilt
Learn to turn a photo into a great quilt of your own design, from image manipulation to fabric selection, with this tutorial by Incrxtc on Instructables.
How-To: Pantone Chip Magnets
Jessica from How About Orange shares yet another way to work Pantone goodness into your everyday decor. See how she made these cute Pantone chip magnets over on her blog. More: Pantone Chip Cookies Pantone Coffee Mug Rubik + Pantone = Rubitone
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Smart Cover for Original iPad
Dan Provost over at Studio Neat managed to brute force one of those fancy new Smart Covers onto his first generation iPad by gluing four rare earth magnets to the spine of the iPad. It doesn’t turn the iPad screen on or off and you’ll have four magnets glued to your iPad when you’re not using it, but it does perform as a cover and stand.
Serious Simulation
Sean’s posting of this week’s Flickr pool roundup, with the Homemade F-16 Simulator Cockpit, had me tripping off to numerous sites where people take their flight simulators very seriously. Check out this site, Viperpit.org, for some very tweaked out recreational flight simulators. Viperpit.org
