Data-Crunching Program Guides Santa Cruz Police Before a Crime @ NYTimes.com… …the presence of the police officers in the garage that Friday afternoon in July was anything but ordinary: They were directed to the parking structure by a computer program that had predicted that car burglaries were especially likely there that day. The program is […]
Yesterday I posted about this lovely paint-by-number mural painted in a child’s nursery. Ohdeedoh has a great interview with another paint-by-number mural artist, Curtis Robertson. He covered most of a room with an intricate paint-by-number design for his niece’s son’s bedroom. The in-progress pictures show just how much detail work goes in to a project […]
A weekly craft fair roundup and a call for vendors.
To make an already-overlong story short, this stuff actually works pretty well. And considering what a ridiculous idea upholstery spray paint is, in the first place, it works almost *astoundingly* well.
Andrew Terranova from Let’s Make Robots mods the Spazzi Robot project from MAKE 27 to use less expensive solenoids. He calls it the EconoSpazzi. Learn to build Spazzi on Make: Projects: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Spazzi-A-Solenoid-Powered-Dancebot/1074/1 More info: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/econospazzi-robot.html
Joe Sandor and the crew from Chicago Crucible demonstrate an iron pour at Maker Faire Detroit 2011. These metalheads collected metal from old radiators and coke from a Detroit power plant and then fired up the furnace. They poured the molten steel into a watermelon and other decorative molds, which were created at the Faire.
Completely makeover a lackluster guitar with a gleaming glitter finish. Don’t be intimidated to dismantle the pieces of a beater guitar and customize your instrument with a coat of paint. Add vivid, colorful shine with a gorgeous spray paint from Krylon called Glitter Blast. It is fully saturated sparkle. The paint dries into a pure […]
