How-To: Make Your Spray Bottle Omnidirectional
Finally, a simple mod to make your spray bottles work in any orientation. Yup, upside down, sideways, and weirdly angled.
Year: 2013
Workshop: Craig Cochrane
Take a photo tour through the 35-year-old hand-built workshop of general building contractor Craig Cochrane, and check some of his projects: a redwood cone carved newel post and a rampant lion stained glass window.
QR Code Hat
I like this QR code hat by Ravelry user LadyKatka because even though the QR code didn’t work, it still makes a pretty interesting Fair Isle pattern.
Machine Scrapes Oreos Clean of Cream
Portland based artist and physicist David Neevel loves Oreos, but can’t stand the creamy filling. Logically, he built a machine that auto-magically decimates the part of the cookie he doesn’t like.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Matthew Borgatti
Matthew Borgatti’s body of work is impressive not only for his sleek designs and out-of-the-box thinking, but for the sheer variety.
Lego Peristaltic Syrup Pump
I spent a rather absurd amount of time last summer trying to build my own peristaltic pump — which delivers liquids through a food-safe tube by massaging it. So when I saw Miguel Valenzuela’s Lego peristaltic pump at Maker Faire New York, I was stoked! It goes with his PancakeBot, which uses Lego robotics to […]
Superpowers, Monsters, Heavy Metal, and Game Controllers
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Pop Chart Lab produces engaging visual taxonomies, cartographies, compendiums, charts, and graphs. There’s something so satisfying about seeing strange data organized visually. Topics covered include The Illustrious Omnibus of Superpowers (featuring 300 heroes, anti-heros, villains, and beasts), The Diabolical Diagram of Movie Monsters, the Periodic Table of Heavy Metals (covering 303 head-banging bands), […]
