The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Providence-based Tellart outfitted ten chairs with GPS trackers. The chairs were left on the curb for people to pick up. After people took the chairs home, the sponsor of this project (Blu Dot) tracked their new owners down down and interviewed them.
This five-piece farmer’s market stand comes together easily without any tools and provides vendors plenty of space to sell local goodies. It’s by Jonathan Bancroft Colon and it aptly named the Bancroft Market Stand. [via Core77]
Ooo, this music table looks like fun! I think I would like a counter-top version though, so I could prepare my xylophone and lunch at the same time.
From the Design Media Lab at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, this “crystal zoetrope” technology involves spinning a cylinder of acrylic with internally etched 3D designs. The disk is surrounded by an array of LEDs that can flash in time with the rotation, or slightly asynchronously, to make the designs appear to move in space, and, additionally, to gradually rotate around the center of the cylinder in one direction or another. The direction and speed of rotation can be controlled by gestural movements on the tabletop. [via Dude Craft]
Kayla Kromer made this sweet Millenium Falcon bed – complete with stowaway compartments and headlights. Check out more pics in the Facebook photo gallery. [via Geekologie]
This great tutorial on building a wooden keyboard case is just the tip of the iceberg at Matthias Wendell’s impressive “woodworking for engineers” site. [via Hack a Day]
Man, this is awesome: This clock is actually an LED screen looping a video of the designer manually redrawing the minute hand every minute, in real time, for an hour. I guess the hour hand is probably moved digitally. Would be kinda scary if he actually stood there and redrew the hands manually every minute for a full 12 hours. I don’t know much about the designer; just that the video was filmed “at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009” and posted to YouTube by A3Network. Feel free to give a shout in the comments if you’ve got more info.
