The folks at Disney Research, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon, are doing interesting work with 3D printing clear resin, light-guiding “light pipes.” The details are documented in their newly released research paper, “Printed Optics: 3D Printing of Embedded Optical Elements for Interactive Devices” (PDF). From their site: Printed Optics is a new approach to creating […]
At the start of Back to the Future, we find Marty in Doc’s lab, standing in front of a six foot tall speaker with a guitar in his hands. One strum on the strings sends him flying back into a bookshelf, emerging covered in debris. This scene was the boyhood inspiration for two University of Wisconsin students and their attempt to recreate that speaker.
Turn real gourds into a festive centerpiece with this mini gourd candle tutorial from Claire at She Knows Living! Each candle is made from a carved-out gourd, so you still get that fall look you crave while giving the pumpkins another purpose! If you’d rather use plastic pumpkins (so they last longer), just be sure […]
Remember the documentary Winged Migration? The filmmakers were able to get all those great shots of migrating geese by acclimating them to the presence of an ultralight plane at an early age. The birds thought the plane was part of their flock. Now filmmaker John Downer has taken avian photography to the next level: mounting […]
An edge-lit acrylic zoetrope based on the linux game Word War VI. The game was written by Steve Cameron, a fellow member of hackerspace TX/RX Labs. I was looking to do a zoetrope project and his vector based game was perfect for a straight forward laser etched animation. The display is a series of 12 […]
Learn a quick and easy method for joining a new ball of yarn to an in-progress knitting or crochet project on today’s Craftsy Fix-It Friday!
Pamela of PBJ Stories has a new twist on Halloween garland – colorful ghost lights. In her post she shows you how to dye fabric to add to a string of lights for a fun, bright garland this Halloween season.
