Turning a Wooden Mallet on the Lathe
Ben Light may love his lathe just a little too much, and in this video he shows us how to use it to turn a piece of firewood into the handle for a mallet, and a block of scrap wood into the head.
Month: March 2013
BOOMin’ MonoBox Mod
Inspired by the MonoBox Powered Speaker weekend project, Tony built his “boom box” into a solid MDF chassis approximately 6″ cubed. He attached a bungee cord to the box for portability, and opted for a combo on/off/volume switch.
Today on Food Makers: Reskilling
The Buckeye Gathering is an annual event in Northern California aimed at teaching and reviving lost arts and primitive skills. Here’s how the organizers described reskilling or primitive living skills:
“Primitive living skills are our original technologies. All of us, every human, has ancestors who made fire and tools from plant, stone, & bone. Because reconnecting with traditional living requires knowledge of the local ecosystems, of the bioregion and its resources, we emphasize local flora and fauna. Although all of our forebears lived earth-based cultures at some point, California Indians tended this land for millennia before European arrival, so we at Buckeye place their particular technology and history at the forefront. We cannot roll back time to a pristine past, but we may learn fundamental lessons from the people who have come before, teachings integral to our healthy survival.”
Today on Food Makers, a Google+ hangout on air at 2pm PST/5EST, I’ll be talking food and food making with some of the organizers behind the Buckeye Gathering about what skills we’ve lost and how we can go about relearning them.
Rubik’s Cube Illusion Knitting Pattern
Illusion knitters Pat Ashforth & Steve Plummer recently completed this amazing new pattern, which is a rubik’s cube that miraculously solves itself when you look at from the proper angle!
How-To: Simple Shamrock Decorations
Make your own simple paper shamrock decorations for St. Patrick’s Day!
DIY Honeycomb Shamrocks
The next time you’re looking for party supplies, pay extra special attention to those tissue honeycomb balls.
Seb Lee-Delisle: Playing With Code
The last 12 months have been a busy time for Seb Lee-Delisle. With a buzzing schedule of speaking, creative coding workshops, exhibitions and public events, it looks like this is the year he’s found his feet as a digital artist.
His path has taken many turns. He started by dropping out of a computer science degree, then hopping around various creative digital disciplines, from desktop publishing to music production. In the early 2000s he began to carve out a career in multimedia production for the web. A growing client list led him to set up his own agency, Plug-in Media. But client work began to take its toll:
“We were doing probably the best work you could imagine, very creative, for high-profile clients, but the thing I realised was, even with the best clients, ” he said. “I only spent about 10 percent of my time doing the stuff I really wanted to do and the other 90 percent negotiating, in meetings, scheduling, budgeting, and team management – all this extra stuff, which I wasn’t that interested in doing. It was frustrating; I just wanted to do that 10 perent.”