Month: May 2011

How-To: Make a Daft Punk Helmet

How-To: Make a Daft Punk Helmet

Here’s an amazing how-to from Harrison Krix, a self-proclaimed dork living in Atlanta who spent 17 months (yes, months) designing and building this awesomely cool Daft Punk Helmet. Then he got a photographer friend to snap some shots of him wearing the helmet in various situations. More merry fun and the complete step-by-step how-to can […]

The Empire Strikes Bike

Today is bike to work day! In honor, here is an awesome bike mod. An official Skywalker Ranch cruiser bike, converted into a Empire Strikes Back-themed super-cruiser. A couple highlights: Master Replicas FX lightsabers were gutted and re-worked to become the headlight (Luke’s) and taillight (Vader’s) with lights and sound activated by switches on the […]

GGHC Finalist Profile – Pumping Station: One

GGHC Finalist Profile – Pumping Station: One

#google_ads_div_mz_hackerspace_125x125_ad_container { float:right; margin:-14px 0 5px 10px; } // The element14 Great Global Hackerspace Challenge has run its course, and the number of contestants has been whittled down from 30 to three. We’ll be profiling each finalist on MAKE, starting with Chicago’s Pumping Station: One! PS:One’s project was a wearable biosensor array consisting of multiple […]

Top 10:  Cookies!

Top 10: Cookies!

Today, I was trying to think of words that start with the letter “C,” and, after a moment’s reflection, it occurred to me: “Cookie” starts with “C.” Persevering, I then endeavoured to think of other words that start with the letter “C,” and, try though I might, I found myself too distracted by the thought of cookies to think of any other words that start with “C.” Who, indeed, really cares about other words that start with “C?”