Pillow Mace Recklessly Escalates Pillow Arms Race
From mad dog of pillow warfare Matthew Borgatti. Check the links below for some of our past coverage of Matthewโs work. [via CRAFT]
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Time Lapse: Lego Ship in a Bottle
This build from Julia Morley took โa week of planning, three days of building, a large number of expletives, and some interesting use of very long tools.โ And you can enjoy the whole process (minus the expletives, which have been replaced with soothing music) in three minutes of 32X time-lapse bliss here. [via The Brothers Brick]
LEGO Large Format Camera
Cary Norton built this incredible large format camera out of LEGOs and calls it the Legotron, Mark I. The first few photographs Cary took with the camera left him “COMPLETELY FREAKING STOKED” and I understand why: they’re absolutely stunning. The focus range is currently limited to about 3 feet to 18 inches, but he hopes […]
Intricate 3D-Printed Gaming Dice
Chuck Stover’s Thorn Dice can be purchased from Shapeways. A set of six printed in stainless steel appear to run around $75 excluding taxes. You can get them cheaper printed in plastic but according to Stover, “They look fine in plastic but are very light. Stainless steel has the heft to roll correctly and feel […]
How-To: Sewn Plush Bunny
KB from A Patchwork World shares her plush bunny pattern and shows you how to sew one up for your little one in time for Easter.
Android-Powered Lego Megaminx Solver
Cubes are so passรฉ. The Megaminx is a dodecahedron with 12 faces, each with 5 edges. Each face can be rotated in a similar way to the well-known Rubik’s Cube puzzle. The robot itself is built out of LEGO using a Mindstorms NXT kit for driving the mechanics. An HTC Desire smartphone running a custom […]
Make Real Time Autostereograms Using a Kinect
Here’s a neat way to visualize 3d data from your Kinect: turn it into a live autostereogram! Kyle McDonald and Golan Levin put together this ofxAutostereogram project using Open Frameworks. Source code to the project is available at the link.
