Year: 2013

Cardboard Christmas trees are now very commonplace and are sold at numerous major ‘brick and mortar’ retailers, as well as online. They have become mass-produced commodities lacking the flare and originality they once held when I first heard of artist renditions a few years back. I like to think we can get back to the personal touch a handmade cardboard Christmas tree can provide. It’s just more fun, personal and interactive to make a cardboard tree in-home.

From the pages of M3D-printed objects create opportunities for these four makers.

Today is Ada Lovelace’s 198th birthday, and while many recognized Ada Lovelace Day a couple of months ago, we’re going to use the anniversary of a favorite mathematician’s birthday as an excuse for a party, anyhow. What better way to have fun like a mathematician than with an afternoon of playing games? Games in general […]

Biomimicry takes lessons from nature and applies them to create more sustainable and innovative designs. Explore a set of themed strategies on AskNature.org that focuses on the function of staying warm. Meet emperor penguins, polar bears, Hercules beetles, and jackrabbits that have survival strategies that can inspire more energy efficient designs for staying warm when it’s cold outside.

After you put Christmas lights on your tree, your house and your lawn ornaments, you might wonder if there is anything else that you can put lights on. Well, why not put lights on the presents as well. It sounds like a fun idea, but no one wants their present to be tethered to the wall with a power cord. So I figured out an easy way to power a set of lights wirelessly with an inductive charger.

Let the wheaty whimsy shine in with these lamps made from bread by Pampshade.

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