Lenore writes – Fused deposition machines are an interesting class of rapid prototyping and art robots, capable of extruding paint onto a canvas or extruding to build up complex, three-dimensional objects one layer at a time. Naturally, one of the challenging parts of designing machines like these is designing and building a system for dispensing […]
Ansley of Bleu Arts informed us that Flickr has a new group, Knit and Crochet Patterns for Sale. If you design patterns, join this group today! Pictured here is Ansley’s famous knit Leia Wig. Link.
Ivanjs writes – If you’ve got a dual channel oscilloscope handy (got mine for $49 on ebay), you can create some amazing imagery using the X-Y mode setting and/or ADD setting). All you have to do is feed a separate signal (like a sine wave and a triangle wave for example) into each of the […]
Crystal of My Longest Year took an old sweater she bought at a thrift store and turned it into this cute totebag complete with those dark wooden buttons that I love. Link.
SportbikeGuy.com shows you how to repair broken plastic, just don’t use your good soldering iron for that – Link.
The 2007 IDSA Northeast District Conference “Shift” takes place in Providence this weekend, and sounds like a lot of fun: This year’s Shift Conference will hit the pulse of industrial design! Shift takes on current notable shifts in our industry by gathering a speaker line-up from Patagonia, Black Diamond, Treehugger, Kid Robot, Core77, Frog Design, […]
Jim Woodring has taken his Moleskine notebook and turned it into a pop-up book filled with his cool drawings. Just fantastic! [ via ] Part 1 and Part 2.
