Meet Sugru, an air-curing rubber that’s designed for gadget hacking. Its uses are almost unlimited. We’ve used it to reinforce computer cords, protect our phones, make gaming controllers more comfortable, and even fix a pair of boots.
Mike from Nootropic Design created this Tabasco bottle lamp: I love Tabasco and always though that their cute little miniature bottles could be the basis for a great specialty lamp. I was very happy to find that a 3mm LED fits perfectly in the bottle opening of the miniature bottles. By designing a custom circuit […]
The Art of Manliness has a post up about dismantling a broken cellphone in order to mine it for useful components that can keep you alive after you get stranded in the middle of nowhere. Tools include a compass out of magnet paired with ferrous metal wire, a survival signal mirror out of a layer of screen, and a small-game snare out of headphone wire. But my favorite is the arrowhead spear made from a circuit board.
Artist Andrew Healy made this amazing cross stitch piece of the disturbing surveillance video image of the Jamie Bulger murder. Not unlike the this Columbine Cross Stitch piece, it seems like the artist probably used the enormous amount of time it must have taken to make this piece to think about the incomprehensible meaning behind […]
Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the alternative “better than new” aesthetic—that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value—has obvious symbolic appeal for the DIY community. Here’s an authoritative definition of kintsugi from Charly Iten, a noted expert on Japanese art…
Spotted on the Dieselpunk site: In 1910 Gaumont demonstrated his Chronophone system, which synchronised sound and film, at the Gaumont Palace in Paris. The compressed-air amplifier, which he called the Eglephone, was just a part of the whole system. The volume was enough for an audience of 4000. Initially the longest moving picture that could […]
San Diego-based software engineer Michael LaGrasta brought his DeskLights ambient notification system to Maker Faire Bay Area this year, where I had the chance to meet him. In a nutshell, using an Arduino Uno Ethernet and 160 RGB LEDs (in the form of Adafruit’s Pixels, “the desk receives event notifications over the network and alters […]
