Kenney was featured in a Japanese public television show, New York Wave. The crew followed me for several months and created this full-length episode that shows how I work and what I do. Watch as I create a giant LEGO model of Times Square, play with kids at events, and take on my biggest project […]
This process animation makes it look easy. There should be a zillion different variations on the design of a chair like this. It looks like a good way to work with the concepts of compression, tension, torsion and shear with students as they design and build their own furniture. Have you used cardboard furniture design/build projects in a classroom setting? Let us know in the comments!
Alittlestranger writes: Dust Bunnies love to hang out with you while you work on your computer and help you clean your screen with their noodly tentacle-y legs. They are very easy to make and make great gifts! I’ve included two patterns so you can make a bunny or an alien one. In addition to sharing […]
Here’s a great story in the Telegraph about an amateur stargazer who tricked out his garden shed in the U.K. and surprised professional astronomers around the world with his top-notch images.
The release of the TI Chronos development kit is exciting not only because it is a cool piece of hardware, but I expect to see many great projects that cleverly exploit the resources of the Chronos. This nifty hack wirelessly unlocks a door using the built-in accelerometer to detect coded taps on the watch. [via […]
This project, by designers Marcos Madia, Sergio Ohashi and Juan Manuel Pantano, explores the idea of a folding wind turbine. The artwork suggests the turbine could generate 600 watts, what do you think, O readers? [via Inhabitat] More: Tesla turbine from a CD disc pack DIY 1000 watt wind turbine HOW TO – Build your […]
During our Craft Spaces interviews, we posed a couple of questions relating to crafting on the go to our spotlighted crafters. One of the questions we asked was: How do you organize your craft space to allow for quick pick-up-and-go crafting? (Possibly for workshop teaching?) Find out the answers from the crafters we’ve profiled so […]
