One of my favorite fashion bloggers, Pixie in Pumps, has posted a great tutorial for making Ombre Scalloped Shorts. The transformation belies the simple dyeing and cutting techniques she used. She couldn’t make it any easier for you to create your own!
Excellent story and calculator round up at the Electronics Design blog… I suspect I was part of the first generation to have been brought up with “pocket” calculators (“pocket” to distinguish them from desktop mechanical calculators the size of a bread bin). I vaguely remember seeing them in my dad’s electronics magazines, sometime around 1979. […]
I love this letterpress hand-drawn robot from Satsuma Press. The robot was drawn by Lynn’s son, Liam, and has such quirky charm! It looks fantastic; there’s something about the childish lines and the gravity of letterpress that play well together. If you think she should offer it as a card, hop on over to Lynn’s […]
Eyebeam fellow Kaho Abe is leading an interesting class on physical controllers: Register now for a new 6-part class led by Eyebeam Fellow Kaho Abe for artists, designers and hobbyists. During each class we will look beyond traditional gaming controllers and learn to utilize the Arduino, Processing, and simple low-tech switches and sensors to create […]
What a pretty idea! Sibylle at Funkytime has a surprisingly simple how-to for turning an empty can and jam jar into a stylish soap dispenser. Hang onto the pump the next time you have an empty pump bottle, and whip this up in about 20 minutes flat.
This drone, reportedly a prototype for the Japan Self Defense Force, has a single rotor and is said to be capable of 40 mph flight. And as the video shows, it’s quite nimble. The catch? An 8-minute battery life. But the idea of enclosing the whole thing in a spherical frame so it can maneuver and land heedless of the orientation of the blades is pretty brilliant.
If you are a cabinet maker, geometry is essential to all the lengths and angles that you calculate. The cabinet shown here goes further and presents the solution to a rather difficult dissection problem. This is the simplest perfect squared square. The entire area is a square and it is divided into squares of distinct integer sizes.
