Home Depot surf board
Nick writes – “How to make a cheap surfboard from Home Depot foam and a few other materials.” – Link.
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HOW TO – Rackmount your gear for cheap
Will’s DIY rackmount how-to on Engadget – “Our simple network rack is an easy project that can really clean up a home network installation. Just a few square feet of floor space now keeps our cable modem firewall, Ethernet switch, server, wireless AP, KVM, monitor, keyboard and UPS neatly tucked away — in a (decently […]
Life Size “Mouse Trap”
Scott writes – “The Life Size Mouse Trap, a full size version of the classic Milton Bradley board game, is back for a special Tax Man show this Saturday, April 15th in San Francisco.” – Link. Related: Life Size Mouse Trap – Link.
LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots
A couple MAKE readers sent in this robot orchestra, looks great – if you’re in the DC area, check it out and let us know about it! – “LEMUR is currently engaged in its largest fabrication project to-date, creating custom robotics for George Antheil’s “Ballet mecanique,” which will be performed from March 12 to 29, […]
Tinkering School
Gever writes – “Back for it’s second year, the group that built a rollercoaster in two days is accepting applications for the summer sessions. This year we are offering two weeks of barely controlled chaos for kids ages 7 to 17 – call it tinkering, call it materials hacking, or call it “fooling around like […]
Rapid Products
Regine over on We-Make-Money-Not-Art has a great round up of rapid prototyping from Ron Arad’s students of Design Product at RCA in London – “Rapid prototyping was developed as a way of producing prototypes for intricate medical and automotive components. A more accurate name for it is 3D printing, as it builds up objects layer […]
Making a real foam sheep, from a 3D virtual sheep
Recursive Instruments is progressing well in their efforts to mil a virtual landscape out of foam… – “…this series shows a day in the life of Sheep Island’s most popular residents–her sheep. On the left is a screen shot of Second Life. In the center is Blender’s rendering of the .obj file OGLE created from […]