Danielle Baskin’s Hand-Painted Bike Helmets
Art on your head with these beautiful hand-painted bike helmets.
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Month: May 2011
Sewing Spacesuits
Gizmodo recently posted an excerpt from Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux, and it’s got my crafty space geek heart racing. I have a bit of an obsession with spacesuits, and reading about the engineering behind them combined with delicate sewing techniques is truly fascinating. The most valued seamstresses were those like Roberta Pilkenton, […]
Continue ReadingDanielle Baskin’s Hand-Painted Bike Helmets
This weekend at the New Amsterdam Bike Show I saw Danielle Baskin’s hand-painted bike/skate helmets. She even has a line based on a deck of tarot cards.
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Roasting Pan Guitar Resonator
Shamus built this cool guitar using a flea-market aluminum roasting pan as the resonator body. Sounds good! Click play above to hear it sing at 1:50, or rewind to hear the build deets. [Thanks, Alan Dove!]
Continue ReadingKinetic Sculpture Manipulates Rare Earth Magnets
Dave Johnson’s magnet machine has a lot of fascinating details: This machine manipulates small spherical rare earth magnets. slicing one at a time from the end of a long chain, moving it around a bit, then dropping it back to re-connect at the tail end of the chain. It also demonstrates a little snippet of […]
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In the Maker Shed: Peggy 2 LED display kit
Peggy 2 is an updated version of the original Peggy light-emitting pegboard display. Version 2 adds simple animation capability and Arduino compatibility.
Continue ReadingMake And Send The World’s Tiniest Photo Postcard
I’m a person who loves anything in miniature and really loves to get mail, so this latest project from Photojojo is a big winner in my book. Introducing the world’s smallest photo postcard. You can turn your photos into 1″x1/2″ confetti-sized wonders that you can even write on and mail to your favorite people. Get […]
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