Without an everyday reference for a sense of scale, Szymon Klimek’s intricate mechanical creations could easily be mistaken for twice their true size. Made from 0.1 millimeter sheets of brass and bronze, Klimek’s miniature machines dance effortlessly in wine-glass enclosures that measure little more than 4 inches across.
I want one of these patriotic ice cream sandwiches right now I can hardly stand it! Red velvet star shortbread stars are paired with cream cheese ice cream in this recipe from Brenda of a Farmgirl’s Dabbles. Check out her blog for both the recipe for the shortbread and the ice cream. More: How-To: Cheery […]
From artist Fabien Clerc, this fully-functional set of two ceramic turntables (and a ceramic mixer) called back in the good old days. The work is dated 2009, and appeared in an exhibit at Geneva’s Rath museum.
Make your own LED bike light with the surprisingly simple DIY bike light tutorial that Etsy seller Robert Katovich of Electric Apparatus shared on the Etsy Blog’s How-Tuesday column. I have had so many bike lights break, get stolen off my bike, or just fall off while riding (or getting hit by SUVs) that I […]
The Netduino Go is an open source, plug and play Netduino with 4 times the speed (168MHz), 6 times the code space (384KB) and twice the RAM (100KB+) of the Netduino Plus.
This is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands). They built it for CWI’s exposition “Turings Erfenis” in honor of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth on 23 June 1912. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who […]
Artist Anders Ramsell has undertaken the task of recreating nearly every frame of Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” in watercolor paintings. So far he has managed to finish the first 12 minutes of the film in 3285 paintings and the results are really delightful. [via buzzfeed] More: Watercolor Music Video @Craftzine.com blog HOW TO – Turn […]
