How-To: Lego Necklace
See how to make a cool Lego necklace over on The Long Thread. It’s a super simple process, inexpensive and could be modified to create all kinds of cool designs with multiple bricks.
Month: May 2011
Maker Faire Bazaar Bizarre Crafters: Clothing/Accessories
Here’s the next installment of our Maker Faire Bazaar Bizarre crafters. Check out this great group of clothing and accessory makers.
The Geekigami Flickr Pool
Since you liked yesterday’s origami Iron Man so much, you might also enjoy the wonders over at The Geekigami Flickr Pool. There’s a group of artists over there folding things like battle robots, Cthulu, and the Starship Enterprise. Can you believe this E.T. was folded from a single square of paper?
Pendulum Pr0n
Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion. The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The […]
Felt Computer Mouse.
Swiss Miss points us to this gorgeous prototype of a felt computer mouse from Joey Roth. It adds such a wonderfully surprising tactile feel to the world of computers. Joey’s plan is that it will be wireless and that you’ll be able to put the entire mouse in the washing machine, if a cleaning becomes […]
Vivify a Drab Wall with Magnetic Primer and Instant Film
Last weekend I had the chance to visit the new office space of M Booth, a public relations agency in New York City. To decorate an otherwise drab wall, they magnetized it and covered it Polaroid-style instant photo prints, attaching each photo to the wall with a rare earth magnet. In order to get these […]
Skill Builder: Hello, Kitchen!
Jeff Potter’s book, Cooking for Geeks, is based on a simple premise: “We geeks are fascinated by how things work, and most of us eat, too.” Food month here on MAKE is built upon that same idea. We’re going to be excerpting from Jeff’s book over the next few weeks, and publishing some of his […]
