The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Sometimes you have a real need to mount your tablet computer to a wall or other vertical surface. That’s where common sense and good old fashioned ingenuity comes in. Seattle area foodie and avid DIY’er, Tumbleweed, shows us that you needn’t spend exorbitant amounts of money on some specialized billet aluminum wall mounting kit. A $2.84 “Delux Plate Hanger Set” will do the trick.
Personally, I don’t know that I’d want to sit at dining room table lit by a light that’s filtered through bacterial growth, but hey, to each his or her own. Looks cool. Bacterioptica [via DudeCraft]
This impressively complex deployable spaceframe was designed by Studio Dror. It’s called Volume.MGX and was printed via selective laser sintering (SLS). I guess hanging it over a light bulb and calling it a “lamp” makes for better video than setting a piece of glass on it and calling it a “table.” Still, fun to watch it squish and un-squish.
This desk made from books resides at the TU Delft architecture library in Belgium The Netherlands. [via BoingBoing] More: Jewelry Made From The Pages of Books Book art! Infinity bookcase Bookcase staircase
It’s a full-size chair version of one of those little wooden toys with segmented legs that collapses when you release the internal tension. I’ve heard them called “swoon toys.” This furniture-scale version called Lazy Chair, by UK designers Fresh West, stands back up rather more slowly than the toys; it takes about 45 seconds in the video above. There’s also a click-to-collapse Flash version at the designer’s website. [via NOTCOT]
One of their latest projects has been to build an automatic chicken waterer, which consists of a large barrel for water collection, a sturdy stand, and a commercial water bowl.
Here’s a neat LED analouge clock that simulates the hands of a traditional clock using rows of LEDs.
