In 1934, New York’s Museum of Modern Art opened their famous Machine Art exhibition, featuring industrial objects like gears, bearings, and propellers displayed solely for their aesthetic value. The embedded video is excerpted from avant-garde U.S. filmmaker Ralph Steiner’s Mechanical Principles, which was released only a year earlier, and is very much in the same […]
Convection mittens are double-layered hand warmers that offer some serious protection from the cold. Katie from Foxflat shared her how-to over on Whip Up, so click through the link to download the free pattern and make your own! More: Chevron Mittens @Craftzine.com blog DIY iPhone Gloves @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Recycled Sweater Mittens @Craftzine.com blog
Do you want to make a web-enabled on / off switch for that power hungry RAID array living in your closet? Or maybe you want to build your very own version of the Twittering Cat Toy? Then you should check out the Arduino Ethernet Shield from the Maker Shed!
On the heels of yesterday’s comic book love, you’ll enjoy this series of vintage photographs that have been transformed into portraits of superheroes by artist Alex Gross. [via Junk Culture]
Thingiverse user and retired protein crystallographer(!!!) pmoews created these .STLs of polyhedra (AKA Johnson solids), based off of George Hart’s VRML files of the solids, converting them to .STLs with Fortran(!!!!) (My favorite is the gyrate bidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron, just cuz of the name.)
This feather stitch embroidery design from Nat at Smallest Forest is a gorgeous piece created using only one family of stitches. Click through the link to see how the piece was created and which stitches were used! [Via Feeling Stitchy]
Destin of Smarter Every Day took the lens off his Canon 60D, pointed a Phantom Flex high speed video camera at the shutter, and took a picture. The exposure cycle happens in four stages and lasts less than a tenth of a second in real time, but the Phantom Flex stretches that action out to […]
