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How-To: Knee Sock Tights
It seems like kids tights are are always in need of replacement. Between runs, holes, and stains, they tend to make it through about one wear—two if you’re lucky—and then they’re so unsightly that they’re relegated to the bottom of the drawer. It seems like the knees, heals, and toes are always the first to […]
Lasercut Motorized Turntable for 360-degree Object Photography
Another handy laser-cut design from British open-source kit-makers .:oomlout:.. DXF plans are available on Thingiverse, and a QuickTime sample of an object photographed with the turntable here.
Math Monday: String Hyperboloid
A string hyperboloid can be made by running strings between two circles and rotating one relative to the other. Here’s one large enough to stand inside of—it is fourteen feet high—between four-foot diameter circles.
Project 101: Make Straight Wood Cuts with a Miter Box
By Mark Frauenfelder It’s possible to draw a fairly straight line with a pencil, but if you want to be accurate, you must use a ruler or straightedge to guide the pencil as you draw. Similarly, if you want to saw a piece of wood (or plastic, or PVC pipe) so that the cut is […]
Robotic Fish Uses only One Servo
At the Center for Biorobotics in Estonia, Eszter Ozsvald built a mechanical fish named A.riel that can model the movements of actual fish surprisingly well, and using only one servo inside a carefully made silicon-based mold. It took many iterations before the final product, but found that in the end she could develop the same vortex patterns as actual fish. Her site has extensive documentation on the build process and is definitely worth a look for the mold-making processes alone.
Altoids Tin Learning Boxes
Laura, the blogger and educator behind Smallgood Hearth, is doing some pretty fantastic things with empty Altoids tins. The latest additions to her altered Altoids tins project include a mini solar system and a disabilities awareness tin. The solar system box comes complete with a mnemonic device for remembering the order of the planets and […]