The geniuses at Photojojo (who brought you the awesome camera lens coffee mug) have come up with another brilliantly fun photography gift. These tiny replica DSLR cameras come complete with interchangeable lenses. This rare and tiny gem is a superbly detailed and a very real-looking 1/6 scale model of your own life-sized DSLR with every […]
Instructables user kstruve writes: I currently live in the Phoenix, Arizona area, which gets mighty hot in the summer. This summer, we’ve had several days around or above 110 degrees. I have twin baby boys, and despite cracking the windows, using reflective seat covers and running the A/C full blast when driving them around, their […]
Sculptor (and former studio mate of mine) Nathan Lewis created this giant “Lawn Tongue,” a carved foam form covered in resin and painted. More photos after the jump! More process pics on Nathan’s blog.
This awesome Star Wars cross-stitch baby blanket and pillow were created by Flickr user, Kiddy Amunda, as gifts for a friend’s baby. What a cool heirloom for this family! Kiddy Amunda is also the genius behind the amazing Logan’s Run cross-stitch pillow we featured back in July.
Florin wanted a MakerBot watch but they were never in stock. So he made his own! He calls it the DWex, which stands for the ‘Duino watch for experimenters. This watch is built around a 3V-powered ATmega328P running at 8MHz. Time is shown using 2 circles of 12 LEDs, in a manner similar to an […]
I’ve been looking for an excuse to build one of these clever tamper-detecting switches for a long time. When a mystery critter recently started raiding the fresh catnip I grow outside as a treat for my indoors-only cat, I saw my opportunity. Sure, I could’ve bought or borrowed a commercial trail camera, or hacked a PIR motion detector circuit, or set up an IR webcam with software-level motion detection, but I’ve long been charmed by the simple low-tech design of the ball-in-cage switch.
