How-To: Vintage Necktie Scissors Organizer
Put your vintage necktie collection to work with this vintage necktie scissors organizer that Becky from Glue and Glitter shared on Craft Test Dummies!
Month: September 2012
Multiplo, an Arduino-Controlled, Open-Source Robot Kit
Congrats to robot fans Rodolfo, Julián, Lucio and Mónica for the successful Kickstarter funding of their Multiplo robot set. We developed this system in order to prototype robots. But we ended inventing a platform to build things. We have been using it at public schools and it had proved to be suitable as teaching material. […]
Hong Sungchul’s 3D String Sculptures
Artist Hong Sungchul creates these visually dazzling works by printing images onto to strings and then displaying the imagery as three dimensional sculptures. [via domestitch]
123D Catch Available on iPhone
Autodesk recently released an update to their 123D Catch photogrammetry app that now runs on the iPhone. Similar in function to the previously iPad-only app, a user captures a series of photographs that get forwarded to an online service for processing into a 3D model.
How To Turn Your Car’s Ashtray Into a Smartphone Dock
Your friend and mine, Jason Torchinsky has created another wonderful, simple car hack. This time, he shows you how to convert the ashtray in your car into an iPhone dock. The basic idea is really simple: let’s put an iPhone (or Android) dock inside the little drawer-like ashtray. Let’s get it hooked up to the […]
Pacific Pinball Expo 2012
Call me old school, but there’s just a special kind of awesome embodied by pinball machines, that video games can’t compete with in my book. The artwork, the lights, the sounds, the feel, the super tactile nature, all the qualities of a good game just put the hugest smile on my face. And here in […]
Beet Delite
In my town, there is a restaurant called East West Cafe, and it serves a dip called Beet Delite. It’s a sort of hummus made of beets, and it is delicious. The last time I ordered it, I told myself I’d try to make it, so I’ve been trying to identify the flavors. I think […]