How-To: Make an easy iPhone alarm clock stand
This has to be my favorite iPhone stand to date. Its simple one piece design is easy to fabricate and lays flat when not in use.
Year: 2009
Photoshop on the iPhone
Adobe has released a version of their Photoshop.com Mobile app for the iPhone. It’s not the full-featured professional software known for it’s reality altering effects, but rather a slimmed-down version compatible with their photoshop.com service.
Handmade Music Austin: workshop, jamming & more – this Sunday!
Austin area synthheads are in for quite a sweet treat – the Handmade Music Austin event series kicks off this Sunday (Oct. 18th) with a kit-building workshop and subsequent group synth jam – 4ms Pedals, Bleep Labs, Eric Archer, and Church of the Friendly Ghost have brought Handmande Music to Austin! Starting October 18th, we […]
How-To: DIY Ladderball
I recently had the pleasure of playing a family game of ladderball (aka bolo toss, ladder golf) using some basic homebrew hardware, and can say firsthand – it’s good times! For those unfamiliar with the backyard sport: players throw golfball/nylon-rope bolos in attempt to hang them on a simple PVC ladder structure. It’s a surprisingly […]
Photopopper drawbot
I love this transformation of a Solarbotics Photopopper into a drawbot, simply by attaching an alligator clip to the back of the bot and clipping on a pen. The site is in Spanish. Here’s a translation of the page, though the image pretty much speaks for itself. In the Maker Shed: Photopopper Photovore 5.0 Our […]
Paul Elkins’ bikes, trikes, and mobile homes for birds
I love discovering a blog like Paul Elkins’. He’s an obsessive designer and tinkerer who’s made all sorts of bikes, trikes, boats, trailers, tree houses, stoves out of mail boxes, and even mobile homes for birds (see above). He writes of his life-long passion for designing and building: I’ve been doing this idea hatching thing […]
It’s construction paper
“Self portrait in a state of fragmentation,” is not, in fact, the title of this amazing work by American everyday-object sculptor Tom Friedman. Formally, it’s “Untitled.” Anyone care to guess what it recently sold for?