Watch Parts Made into Mechanical Creatures
Chicago-based jeweler Justin Gershenson-Gates crafts these mechanical creatures from watch components, using winding stems for legs and watch faces for exoskeletons.
Month: November 2012
How-To: Knitted Hats for the Whole Family
Make cozy knitted hats for the whole family with this basic knitted hat pattern from The Purl Bee!
Seven Cool 3D Printable Tools
Putting together the MAKE Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing was great fun, for a lot of reasons, but one of my personal favorites was getting to kick around Thingiverse researching some of the amazing things that people are already making with hobby-class 3D printers. At first, the idea of printing useful hand tools in fused plastic filament seemed unlikely to me (and indeed, many of the standouts in the T-verse Tools category include metal bits, blades, or other embedments that take the heavy wear), but, as usual, the creativity of the Thingiverse community surprised me. Here I’ve collected just a few of my standout favorites for your enjoyment.
Fringed Ornaments
Confetti Pop is bringing a party into their ornament game with this festive and fab fringed ornament.
Exponential Bird Stuffing with Vi Hart
Mathemusician Vi Hart, never one to rest on convention, decides that “linear bird stuffing,” a la the turkducken, is not very inspired and sets herself the task of creating a more fractal-friendly “turduckenen-duckenen” (or, um something like that).
Glockentar: Epic Instrument Mashup
What happens when you want to play two instruments at the same time, but only have two hands? You let electronics do the work for you, of course.
Busted Trampoline? Rock a Hammock and Bencholene
North Carolina-based industrial designer Preston Moeller shared a couple of clever trampoline repurposing ideas with us on Make: Projects. The first is the Bencholene, pictured above, and the other is the Rocking Trampoline Hammock, seen below. Fresh! While Preston didn’t give us so much a detailed step-by-step, the general gist is there. Plus, who can […]