More waterjets and 3D objects
Simon from BigBlueSaw writes “Lamina Design has software that lets you turn interesting 3D designs made in Rhino or other CAD software into wonderful 3D objects that can be made on a waterjet.” [via] – Link.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Laser etched Powerbook
Here’s another neat laser etched Powerbook (Magritte’s “The Son of Man” ) [via] – Link. Related: Laser etched Powerbook! – Link. How it’s made – Laser etching Powerbooks – Link.
Scrollling LED display that reads RSS feeds
A Maker in the forums was looking to make a LED display that can read RSS feeds, here’s a start – Atharsia writes – “Check out [this site] for a circuit that can be used to drive a matrix of LED’s that can be driven to display alphanumeric characters. You should be able to just […]
Bicycle blenders
There’s a Starbucks in Washington that has a bicycle powered blender and the customers make their own drinks or something (I couldn’t find any information on why they’re doing this or which one in WA, but there was a video on Keith Obermann last night). So, here are some resources around the web on bike […]
DIY LED Marquee
Ben’s L.E.D. Marquee – “The design is relatively straight-foreward.One of the 555’s set the rate you wish the individual LED’s to turn on ( and off). I set this at a 50% duty cycle so it looked like the “spelling” of the word looked uniform. The other 555 sets the rate at which the turn […]
Blinged cords and Apple VGA adaptor
Check out these blinged out computer accessories from Berlin, thanks Arwen!
Build your own UV exposure box with fluorescent like lamps
Michail writes – “Ever wondered having your own UV exposure box in your lab but couldn’t get one because of the high cost? Don’t kill your dreams so easy. Now you can make your own UV exposure box and print your own printed circuits boards in your home. In this article we will find out […]