Month: May 2011

Mathematical Coffee Table

I’m enthralled by this mathematical coffee table over on Makezine.com. I love the idea of switching to a different configuration depending on the number of guests you’re having, plus it just looks cool. The coffee table is part of their Math Monday series, which offers glimpses into geometrically pleasing jewelry and other neato projects. Check […]

Rope Walls

Morgan of The Brick House created these awesome rope walls for a client who needed a way to delineate office space in a large, open warehouse workspace. Since cost is always an issue (and this space is a rental), it wasn’t prudent to dump a bunch of cash into building traditional solid walls that would […]

Crochet Mercury Redstone Rocket

I’ve featured the geektastic crochet rocketry of Ms Premise-Conclusion here before. Her space shuttle and Saturn V pieces are some of my favorite geek craft finds ever. Since today marks the 50th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s flight as the first American in space, I thought it would be fitting to share her version of the […]

Lego Mindstorms Eggbot

Lego Mindstorms Eggbot

Mike Brandl’s Globe Plotter can draw the shapes of the continents on a white ball. For this robot the coordinates of the continents were prepared as a zigzag line, drawn with a green felt tip pen. After the continents are drawn the robot switches colors from green to black. With this pen the continents are […]