These would make such a cute addition to a kid’s Back-to-School kit. Or party favors! Kimann from Scissors.Paper.Wok shows how to turn ordinary pencils mushroom-y with the help of woodworking buttons, which are available at many building supply stores.
Tickets are now on sale and you can also sponsor the OSHW summit.
SaffronColoredPony, out of Detroit, is making some smashing light fixtures from vintage crinolines. I saw them on the front page of Etsy today and fell in love. Upcycling meets upskirt!
A few years later, the Neutrinos drifted into Port Isabel, Texas where a 19 year-old college dropout named Constance Hockaday was living with her parents. Hockaday, a rather alienated young woman, immediately became enthralled with the idea of living on a boat and not paying rent. Before long, she was on the boat, so to speak. Her life hasn’t been the same since.
The next episode of Make: Live is all about metalworking, from welding to jewelry making. Go to https://makezine.com/live to watch the show live on Wednesday, August 10th at 9pm ET/6pm PT.
Members who support psychoactive chemical information clearinghouse Erowid.org at levels of $125 or greater are rewarded with one of these lovely hand-worked borosilicate glass CPK-style molecular models, with subjects ranging from the (rather boring) 3-atom linear nitrous oxide molecule to the truly gorgeous LSD-25 molecule shown to lower left.
The diameters of US quarters and pennies are very close to the ratio needed to make a truncated icosahedron, i.e., a soccer ball in the US or a football elsewhere. Copper pennies take the place of the usually black pentagons and quarters take the place of the usually white hexagons, so even the colors work out.
