I went through a googly-eyes phase when I was in college, wandering ’round applying them to the most inappropriate and disturbing objects I could find, and taking pictures. The mentionable results of this project include googly-eyed tombstones, firearms, surgical instruments, and urinal cakes. None of these photos will ever see the light of day. You’re welcome.
It’s not a dramatic color shift, but it turns out you can control the hue of EL wire over a narrow range by varying the frequency of the resonating driver circuit. dcroy (upper video) did it back in February using a 555, and Paul Stoffregen (lower video) unknowingly repeated the work recently, having noticed that a single fixed-frequency driver produced slightly different colors in two different lengths of wire.
I don’t know anyone who’s a crafter who doesn’t also have at least a little bit of a button obsession. So, this tutorial for making your own shrink plastic buttons from scissorspaperwok is probably going to make you just as excited as it made me. Hello, fancy homemade buttons!
Get a grip with the Telerobotic Gripper Kit from the Maker Shed! This kit includes everything you need to make the Teleclaw featured in MAKE: Volume 27, even the batteries! Assemble the kit and attach it to your robot, rover, or anywhere else you could use an extra hand.
Something about these teeny tiny fly swatters from 1-Inch Minis is just utterly charming to me. I’m always fascinated by miniature items custom made for dollhouses, and this is one of the most unusual ones I’ve seen. The detail is just amazing. More: How-To: Tiny Dollhouse Art Modern Miniatures Feature in New York Times Miniature […]
A selection of robotic limbs from the archives of MAKE.
Photos: Yong Joo Kim Yong Joo Kim made these amazing pieces of velcro art that can be worn as jewelry. My work introduces unconventional use of familiar artifacts into a world of conventions. By assembling, grouping, clustering, and piling, the simple elements become complex and give rise to the unexpected. [via trendhunter]
