Julie Scelfo from The New York Times writes about woodworking classes that are geared toward a younger set of children, some even as young as five years old. From Brian Cohen, co-founder of Beam Camp: “My partner and I saw that kids were spending too much time interacting with perfect interfaces,” said Mr. Cohen, 45. […]
Japanese Maker Satoshi Shibuichi built this impressive looking analog television set (translation), which uses vacuum tubes to display video on a tiny CRT monitor. Schematics and photos of the build are available at the website, however if you’re thinking of building one, you should act fast. As Takumi Funada points out in the original article, […]
Kitsch up your centerpiece a notch with this fun tutorial from Jennifer Perkins of Naughty Secretary Club. She’s used her cool collection of vintage brooches to create a fun topiary for the dining table. Love it!
Engineering your Career – video interviews at Microchip via Jeri.
Who knew you could get such a glam look from plastic soda bottles and duct tape? Katie from Matsutake did, and transformed a plain lamp into something spectacular. Check out her tutorial on creating the stunning lamp base and follow up with her tutorial for turning a tapered lamp shade into a drum lampshade over […]
Actually these HEX chairs from designer Hugh Hayden made the rounds back in 2009, but they’re just now coming across my radar via this round-up of tennis ball furniture that recently tripped one of my Google auto-alerts. There are plenty of unusual chairs in the world, and though I like these better than many, I’m more interested in Hayden’s process for joining the tennis balls together.
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6452454&use_node_id=true&fullscreen=1 For the sake of humanity, Kinect hackers, please exercise caution! [via Dangerous Prototypes]
