The Flickr blog posted a great roundup of favorite Post-It Note-created Space Invaders in the workplace. I love the top photo from Flickr member Peter Norby and the response from the office building across the street (below), posted by Kevin Collins. Related: Office Supply Model Making
Jeremy Mayer’s typewriter assemblages are sculptural pieces made purely from typewriter parts. In a process he calls “reassemblage,” Mayer fits the pieces together into likenesses of living creatures using no welds, glue, solder, or external parts. He talks about and shows his work at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.
Jeremy Mayer’s typewriter assemblages are sculptural pieces made purely from typewriter parts. In a process he calls “reassemblage”, Mayer fits the pieces together into likenesses of living creatures using no welds, glue, solder, or external parts. He taks about and shoe his work at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.
More cool original content from Hack a Day, this time by Kevin Dady. He writes: “I was recently commissioned to make a device which uses a pretty large number display, and I went out shopping. The seven segment we liked best was still quite pricey, and would not fit our enclosure correctly anyway…”
Continuing my jewelry made out of unexpected materials kick, I definitely need to share this colored pencil jewelry tutorial that Kate from Mini Eco created for Design Mom. Wouldn’t these make fabulous gifts for the artsy kid or teacher in your life?
Everyone that solders is familiar with “solder smoke.” Most people just blow it away when it gets annoying or angle themselves away from it as they work. Try as you might, you are still going to inhale some of the fumes. That’s why you need the Mini Fume Extractor Kit from the Maker Shed.
Danielle of Thompson Family-Life created this gorgeous cross-stitch peg board and shares the basics of how she made it. She was inspired by a design from a vintage needlearts book and freehanded it on to the board. A couple of years ago, I did my own version of stitched peg board, but Danielle’s blows it […]
