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Susan Clausen of AS220 made this amazing target for LED throwies. It’s made of sheet metal, but she also put some audio pickups on the back and ran it through an effects pedal and into an amplifier. It made for some extremely satisfying tosses. The video shows the throwie wall in action at the 2008 […]
On Instructables, user technick29 has a recipe on how to make the ultimate pineapple smoothie. Yummers!
Interesting, here’s a book called LEGO for adults, it shows how to make crossbows, pistols and more — there are only about 1,000 copies because (according to the author) “After 1050 copies were printed, the LEGO Group® forbid the further use of their trademark in connections with guns, so this is the first and only […]
Fourth of July fireworks might seem tame to Matt Stromberg via Gizmodo. The Savannah College of Art and Design professor of foundation studies and sculpture uses rocket fuel, explosives, pyrotechnics, propellants and munitions to create earth-shattering art. These energetic materials are used to manipulate metal, wood and paper — using destruction to create art. Stromberg’s […]
Saturday I went to Artopia in Seattle’s Georgetown area. Lots of cool art everywhere! Divide from Hazard Factory explained his (very loud) jelly bean gun, yet another way to dramatically fling things into the air. Only use this outside! More: Make a Spud Gun Instructions and 3D PDF The SGTC Mega-Launcher Spudgun
The NXT STEP’s BlueToothKiwi made an NXT Wall-E; he’s shared instructions on NXTLOG. He also points us to the adorable Wall-E Joe Meno made out of LEGO – there are lots of pictures in his Flickr set. Bigger eyes! More: Disney intros new bots @ Maker Faire HOW TO – Build your own Wall-E robot
Freddie Yauner has another fun project that he has just posted on his website. This time it’s his “Highest Popping Toaster in the World”. You may remember his other piece “The Fastest Clock in the World” which started a little controversy in the comments. Hopefully this time no one will dispute his claim of the […]
