Chris Rieger, an EE student at the University of Queensland, built this light that both levitates and gets its power wirelessly. This is a project I’ve been working on for about 6 months now next to my regular studies. It is a levitating light bulb. This project came to life when i saw Jeff Lieberman’s […]
This stop-motion of a car engine being stripped and then put back together, titled “11 Months, 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee,” is magnificent.
The Martha Stewart Living Facebook page asked users today what their dream craft room might include. Answers included predictable items like a sewing table, but ranged to more creative ideas like a massage table (not bad!). For my birthday last week, my fiance (the one who made me a craft table for my craft room […]
Design Sponge posted a really pretty tutorial on how to make stained leather coasters. The technique is cool and the end result is so lovely.
I’ve been hunting for the perfect pattern for knitting my first pair of socks, and this sporty striped peds pattern from Whit’s Knits on The Purl Bee is just the kind of simple start I’ve been looking for! Peds take the wonders of sock knitting and concentrate them down into one quick little project. Right […]
These are are just a few of architect and artist Gregg Fleishman’s amazing “panel puzzle” designs. To left, a 2002 chair called Nebula II, and to right, a timeline showing stages in the evolution of his 1979 Lumbarest design, the first prototype of which dates to 1975. Besides furniture, Gregg also designs buildings and model vehicles using a similar body of techniques.
By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics Although Math Mondays has featured mathematical clothing before, it turns out there is an entire subgenre of clothing and accessories featuring those indivisible nuggets of the arithmetical world, the prime numbers. These range from the most basic, a list of prime numbers on the front (and composites […]
