Gorgeous Gore: An Amazing Knit Mask From Brutal Knitting
Tracy Widdess of Brutal Knitting turned yarn into an incredibly knitted mask based on a drawing by artist Stéphane Blanquet
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MIT to Offer Course in Rapid Prototyping
This summer, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will begin offering a rapid prototyping continuing education course. During the course, which is suitable for a general audience, students will learn about a number of prototyping techniques, design components in a group setting, and then fabricate those parts during lab time. “With rapid prototyping you can fail […]
Build an Infrared Shooting Arcade
Learning about technology is a lot easier when you’re having fun — and shooting at targets is fun! With this amusement park–style arcade, you’ll fire beams of infrared light instead of projectiles to trigger automated knock-down targets you can customize with soda cans, ducks, robots, or anything else you feel like toppling with a well-placed shot.
How to Clone and Grow a Fig Tree
Don’t steal fruit from your neighbor’s fig tree — clone it!
Adorable Robot Built Around a Credit Card Body
If you’re worried about your credit card “walking off,” now there’s another explanation than simple theft. If you’re the creator of this credit card robot, it can literally walk off by itself. On the other hand, it looks like it would be very hard to use in a reader, so that might be a deterrent […]
Decorate Your Garden with Doctor Who Stepping Stones
Ready to bring some serious geek cred to your garden? You’ll definitely want to carve out some time this weekend for this delightfully unexpected Doctor Who-inspired stepping stones project! To the uninitiated, these lovely stepping stones will just look like quirky geometric art, but, to fellow Whovians, your new backyard decor will make you a […]
3D Printed Zoetrope Animates Famous Baroque Painting
Tired of looking at old paintings in stuffy art museums? Then take a gander at this 3D printed zoetrope called “All Things Fall,” which artist Mat Collishaw made in collaboration with Sebastian Burton in order to bring an action-packed, baroque painting by Peter Paul Rubens to life! It’s shocking to see how much violence this […]