Guerilla gardener Steve Wheen combines a lack of road maintenance with a surplus of whimsy by making tiny themed gardens in potholes around East London. The pictures and gardens are supposed to put smiles on peoples faces and alert them to potholes! I don’t leave any of the props out after we shoot them, I […]
Very cool widget from British firm RTL Materials, who’ve figured out a trick for making composite tubes that are pre-stressed, like a tape measure, such that they want to roll up into a rigid round tube structure when unfurled from a flat, coiled state. Unlike a tape measure, however, these “bistable reeled composites” are also […]
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter and I went camping together. The weekend was unusually cold for Texas (sadly, it already feels like spring here) and we had to do some serious bundling up to stay warm. We’d brought along packs of handwarmers, and while they were handy – pun intended – I felt […]
Creative Applications posted this thorough guide to getting started with augmented reality in Processing. They use NyARToolkit, which is an open source augmented reality library for Java and other languages. The tutorial starts off with a very basic example of using the toolkit to augment 3D boxes on an image (see above). It then moves into more advanced live video and 3D techniques. Hit play on the video above to check out some of the other cool stuff you can do with augmented reality.
Chances are, if you’ve got something with sufficient volume and a rigid body, you can probably put a speaker in it. With a little trial and error you can come up with a unique speaker enclosure that will be both pleasing to the eye and appealing to the ear.
Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is from regular fdecomite, whose beautifully-made and -photographed geometrical sculptures appear here frequently. In fact, this is the second of his works featuring spherical-mirror anamorphosis to be featured in this space; the first was back in March 2011. Hats off to you, sir. Thanks for […]
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it’s a perfect time to put together some cute heart-themed accessories. Alisha of Felt So Cute shares her quick and easy tutorial for sweet felt Valentine headbands, and while they are modeled by her daughters, I’d say they are perfect for adults as well!
