Plush Buttered Pancakes
Todd von Bastiaans and Bryan McCarthy made this butter and pancakes pillow set that really looks like buttered pancakes. via [neatorama]
Month: September 2011
Holiday Sew-Along on Sew, Mama, Sew!
Our friends over at Sew, Mama, Sew! are getting ready to start what promises to be a fantastic sew-along series for the upcoming holidays. It’s a great way to get started on some special holiday projects now, so you aren’t stressed out about them later. By mid-November each year there are lots of us who […]
Mini Post-It Menger Sponge
OK, so, it’s a level 3 approximation of a Menger Sponge, actually, incorporating 8,000 unit cubes, each of which starts as one-sixteenth of a “mini” size Post-It. Its creator, Nicholas Rougeux, likes Post-Its for this work because they “offer surprisingly [sic] structural durability and are easy to get in large quantities making them ideal for assembling structures like these.”
Plywood Cargo Bike
Plywood might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re designing a cargo bike, but for Michael Downes and Jeff Sayler it led to a uniquely elegant custom ride. Downes, an industrial designer, conceived the wooden Bakfiets-style cargo bike as an entry to the Oregon Manifest Design Challenge and enlisted his neighbor, Sayler, a master shipwright, as the other half of the duo know as Art & Industry. Together they designed and built the 51 pound hauler using CNC-cut plywood glued together with a custom epoxy resin. Additional refinements such as bamboo veneer, storage compartments, hatches, and a cargo bin are to be seen on the final version.
World Maker Faire on ABC News NOW’s “Tech This Out!”
Set TiVos on Record! Just an FYI that we got word today that there will (likely) be a segment about World Maker Faire on ABC News NOW, in Daniel Sieberg’s “Tech This Out” segment. The show airs at 12:30pm. If you miss it on the Tube, it will be up on the series of tubes later, via Tech This Out’s Hulu page.
“My Visit to the Future at Maker Faire”
Marsha Semmel, who participated in Maker Faire Detriot and wrote a piece for our Making Detroit series, has a lovely piece about Maker Faire NY on the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) blog.
Thigamakit Remixed into a Robot
Travis Chen of L.A. added a Thingamakit synthesizer (formerly sold by Bleep Labs) along with with dual LEDacles, to his Nintendo R.O.B. robot, then sold it on Etsy. [Via Bleep Labs]
