The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Bring your Arduino if you’ve got one, see you there! About This Dorkshop: David Cuartielles will be speaking about the past present and future of the Arduino platform, both hardware and software. There will be an opportunity for DT students to share their work in quick 3 – 5 min presentations. What have you made […]
The second graphic explains the physics behind what Boing-Boinger Jimmy Guterman has described as “the greatest scene ever in the greatest movie of all time,” viz. the destruction of a cruising jetliner by the eponymous “Mega Shark” from Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. You may be interested to know, for instance, that Mega Shark’s air attack requires that it break the surface of the water with a velocity of 710 km/hr, which is faster than a bullet train but not quite so fast as a Tomahawk missile.
Over at Make: Online a great discussion is taking place about OK Go’s Rube-Goldberg machine video. Four of the makers involved in the machine’s creation are at their keyboards, answering reader questions. Head on over and ask yours! The photo above is by Sara Ross-Samko.
This bird’s nest project from Tali of Growing Up Creative is an awesome twist on a paper mache process. I love that it incorporates recycled and natural materials. Best of all, it promises to be messy (and worth it!).
This 4×9′ boardroom table was created for Ireland’s Boys and Girls advertising agency by fellow Dubliners agbc architects. It is, essentially, a 7-stud thick slab of random Lego bricks topped with a piece of tempered glass. More details and photos are available here. A timelapse video of its construction, (inevitably set to the not-so-soothing sounds of the William Tell Overture), is available on YouTube. [via Dude Craft]
Diane Gilleland’s gourd lantern project appears in MAKE, Volume 21, and is the subject of this week’s Weekend Project video! You can also download the project PDF that accompanies the video. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, or download the m4v video. From MAKE magazine: MAKE Volume 21 is the Desktop Manufacturing issue! If […]
Don Sturrok made this loungy, immerse computer gaming rig out of an Ikea chair, aluminum pipe, and Kee Klamp and Kee Lite fittings from Simplified Building Concepts. Computer Gaming Chair Becomes Reality
