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Artist Tim Simpson has a helmet that makes you smile, no serious, the helmet *makes* you smile – “A helmet for people in jobs which demand an unusual amount of smiling, such as air-stewards, receptionists and politicians. A sensor in the front of the helmet detects anybody within a 2 metre range, at which point […]
Volunteerlabrat has a clever DIY 3D scanner you can make using a web camera and fairly simple rotating table (the 3D scanner script written in matlab to take the pictures on the site too)… [via] – Link. Related: Homemade 3D Scanner – Link. Project Splinescan – Cheap 3D scanning – Link.
RinpaEshidan from Japan posted this 5 minute video of over one week’s worth of art, time lapsed… Thanks Rob! – Link.
Hmm, I dunno this doesn’t look *that* sturdy, but might be a good start on something a little more sturdy… – Link. Related: Check out some of our other messenger bag how-tos, projects and more @ MAKE – Link.
Airliners.net has an incredible long exposure photo of a UPS plane taking off, it looks like a road in the sky… – “N306UP (cn 27759/622) Cleared for takeoff with a southbound turnout. Runway number and piano keys visible! [Canon 20D, 50mm f/1.8 MK-II] Taken @ Des Moines – International (DSM / KDSM)” [via] – Link. […]
Wow, HighmoonMedia @ The Dragon’s Landing Inn forum spotted this aweesome rideable mechanical lion built by a metalworker in Belgium – [via] – Link (photos and more). Update: Dirkus writes ” if you visit the creator’s site you’ll find that this is a Tiger, not a Lion, and her name is Shiva. More info and […]
Charles writes – “I recently completed a piece which I thought may be appropriate for MAKE magazine – Public Fountain, 2006, is a self-contained, portable and solar powered fountain. It is designed to bring the gathering point — that the traditional urban fountain often is — into the city’s more tangental zones. Over two days […]
