Year: 2010

Cardboard chair process video

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!

How-To: Plush Screen Duster

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 […]

Portable wind turbine

Portable wind turbine

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 […]