Codebox: Create a fractal menagerie
Create a variety of natural looking shapes — ferns, trees, and dragons — using fractals and the controlP5 library.
Computers & Mobile
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Giant duct tape and sharpie AT-AT
Giant for a model, anyway. At 4′ tall it’s only 1/20th the size of a “real” one, and still not even close to Disney World’s “almost life size” version. Still, just try offering Disney what eBay seller komonac is asking for his and see what they say. [via Boing & Boing, LLP]
Your Comments
And we’re back with our sixteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. MadRat speculates about what the creators think of people making fire with Ikea products: I always wonder what the owners, designers and factory workers think when they see their […]
Homemade Spacecraft
The latest high altitude weather balloon video making the rounds is from the father and son team of Luke and Max Geisshuhler of Brooklyn, NY. Their setup included a 19-inch helium balloon with a payload consisting of a camcorder, GPS enabled phone, and a couple of hand warmers inside a styrofoam container.
MacBook tablet mod
Check out this clean MacBook tablet conversion by EnigmaPenguin. He’s re-used the case by cutting a hole large enough for the screen to show through and added a USB touch screen. The result is rather impressive for such a cheap mod.
DIY bookscanner forums
MAKE subscriber Michael Zenner wrote in to tell us about the DIY Book Scanner community forums.
IC squisher from skate bearings, acrylic scraps
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this handy homebrew jig from the UK’s oomlaut:
We’ve recently grown annoyed with the slightly bow legged stance DIP ICs ship with (it makes inserting them into sockets ever so frustrating). Rather than continue to spend longer than we liked on less than perfect results we decided to make ourselves a little jig to help out.
Details and laser-cutter files are available at the link above. This post from EMSL is cited by way of inspiration.