Motorcycles Made From Watch Parts
These are from deviantART user dkart71. Back in 2007, we covered similar work from a Brazilian artist who goes by Blancosur. [via Boing Boing]
Month: April 2011
How-To: Faux Pysanky
I love the look of traditional pysanky, but between not having a steady hand and not having much free time, I tend to shy away from it. Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes has a brilliant idea for achieving the delicate pysanky look with Sharpies instead of wax and dye. As she points out, it’s also a […]
Working Miniature Crossbow
Check out this fully functional miniature crossbow from the same mind that created the Mini Brass Cannon featured a few months back.
Elaborate & Mesmerizing LEGO Great Ball Contraption
This video from YouTuber akiyuky is close to 8 minutes of heavy duty LEGO automation that will almost certainly suck you in. Colored balls are hurried along the machine using over twenty GBC modules of varying complexity. Watch as they’re swept, shoveled, screwed, and pumped while being sorted, combined and placed on various transport mechanisms.
Erase a CD in style with high voltage electricity
Youtube user Photonicinduction shows how to erase a CD using a high voltage step up transformer. It’s probably not the most efficient way to go about things, but it does look cool! [Thanks, Matt!]
NASA Maps its Open Gov/Citizen Science Efforts
Our friends at On Orbit posted a link to this NASA poster showing their milestones in creating more open source agency in their agency and providing more tools for citizen science. As part of the NASA Open Government plan released on April 7,201 0, NASA announced more than 150 milestones related to integrating Open Government […]
Live NASA Make: Challenge Webcast Tuesday 11am PT
Don’t miss Tuesday’s live webcast where Dale Dougherty and YOU ask questions of the experts around the NASA Make: Challenge! The NASA Make Challenge is an invitation for makers to participate in the exploration of space and give students an opportunity to build an experimental kit that can be flown on a future space flight. […]