Converse And Marimekko
Feast your eyes on this dreamboat collaboration. When my friend, Sarah, posted about these, I flipped out. My favorite shoes in some of my favorite fabrics? Yes, please!
Month: February 2011
Candy Wrapper Chair
Emiliano Godoy’s “Snowjob” chair is upholstered in landfill-bound surplus candy wrappers.
3D-Printed Robot Snake
Via i.materialise: This robot is nothing we haven’t seen before, but it intrigues me. It was apparently built as a promotion by the folks who make Objet 3D printers. I’d love to see what each module looks like — room for a servo, PCB and battery pack, maybe. Someone needs to put a robot snake […]
How-To: Papier-Mâché Enclosure
I really like this idea from Sivan Toledo. Although labor-intensive, the price is certainly right and the results are, IMHO, as good-looking as many purchased enclosures and with much more character. The mold is formed from scrap cardboard and covered with the wet paper mixture, and there are lots of finishing options. [via Hack a Day]
How-To: Needle Felted Bowl
Make a soft and sweet bowl for your precious trinkets. Seehow to needle felt it over on Felt-o-Rama with Marigold of Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
22 Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin
We’re big fans of Altoids tins here at MAKE, which is why we love this awesome round-up of 22 Manly Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin by The Art of Manliness. Highlights include: a pinhole camera, an urban survival kit, and my favorite, the fireball shooter. If, after reading that, you still don’t know what […]
High Altitude Paper Airplanes
Project Space Planes is a publicity stunt, but a fun and interesting one at that. Launch 100 paper planes with a particular brand of memory cards containing messages sent in from people across the Internet on a high altitude weather balloon and see what happens. Well, it’s been a couple of weeks since they launched and results are still streaming in. Currently the list includes a number of unconfirmed reports of planes found in places like Germany, Australia, Russia, India, the Netherlands, California, Canada, and South Africa.