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Make:NYC Meeting 19: Challenge: Raingutter Regatta We’re giving boats another shot. This time hopefully it won’t be so sticky. Build raingutter boats with us and see who crafts the best performing vessel! Show and Tell: Meet your fellow NYC Makers and show off your creations! Bring your gadgets, gizmos, sketches, ideas, anything you’d like to […]
Turns out that the most useless machine (how-to coming up in MAKE Vol. 23) also makes a great cat toy! This Japanese version is sold as a bank that grabs a coin when you place it in the “bowl switch,” which is triggered by the cat in this video. [via Cute Overload]
Dot at Dabbled is at the top of my list for Mom Of The Year with these awesome Clone Trooper cupcakes. Her entire Phineas and Ferb Meet the Clone Wars birthday party is fantastic, but I just can’t get over the detail in these Clone cupcakes. I’d show them to my son, but I’m more […]
This is a twitter experiment enabling twitter users real time interaction with a physical art installation. The installation is a pyramid made from 5000 marbles, triggered by 5000 tweets. On its way to the pyramid each marble falls into a marble run filled with ramps, tunnels, pinwheels. You will see your marbles way through the […]
Here’s a beautiful way to work doilies into your decor from Under the Sycamore. [via Re-Nest]
Dubious practicality aside, you can’t deny this zany hybrid pedicab turns heads. Suspend your disbelief for a moment and marvel at the dual-action windmill/rotating sign’s purported ability to use the wind to assist the rider. If anything, it should attract copious potential customers.
Some observations: The table top pieces are only truly circular in their larger arrangement. In the “contracted” table, the 6 wedges in fact form a kind of rounded-off hexagon, and the outer table edge is made circular by the rotating rim, which has a complementary inner profile. Besides the wedges, there are two other types of pieces that make up the table top–6 “darts” having two parallel sides that rise to fill the spaces between the wedges, and the “star” (a dodecagram, in fact) that rises up in the middle. The table is locked in either configuration by one or more threaded detents which are quite clearly shown in the upper video.
