How-To: Build a “rumble pipe”
In this KipKay video, Kip shows you how to make a simple sound effects thingy out of some PVC pipe, a piece of drum skin, and a spring. Rumble Pipe SFX Fun!
Month: August 2010
Kid-Illustrated Recipes
I love the charming drawings and writing for the blog, Kids Draw and Cook, where kids can submit their illustrated recipes for publication. Pictured above, Skrambld Eggs by Charlotte Turk. [via Geninne’s Art Blog] Related: Illustrated Recipes Kokblog – Illustrated Recipe Blog
Felt Food Roundup
Cassi at The Crafty Crow collected a variety of felt food tutorials from around the craft blogs and posted them beautifully into a handy visual photo album. These cute felt foods are a great gift for kids and their play kitchen.
Real R/C cars meet racing arcade action
Via the HacDC Blabber list comes this giddy-with-awesome cardboard racetrack with camera-mounted R/C cars and an arcade racing cockpit where the driver controls the vehicle. The builder, Malte Jehmlich, says he spent several months working on the project. It’s WipEout meets vintage R/C racing. I want! [Thanks, Daniel Packer!] Racer
Math Monday: Geometric origami
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Each year I visit the annual Origami convention in New York City, and this year, as always, I was impressed by the wide range of works on display. The mathematical examples get more sophisticated each year. Here are just four examples to illustrate a range of folding […]
My First Sashiko Embroidery Kit
While I was at the Maker Faire Detroit, I picked up a sweet Japanese embroidery kit from Tadaa Studios. It’s called Sashiko which translates to “little stabs” so it really is the perfect embroidery for me, the chronic needlefelter. The technique involves stacking up stitches on a long needle to create perfect little dashes. The […]
Gary Numan plays “Cars” with cars
Our friends at Syyn Labs, the folks who brought us the Rube Goldberg Machine for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” music video, recently did some commercials for DieHard, one featuring Gary Numan performing his classic song “Cars” on actual cars (their tuned horns), playing them on a keyboard, all powered by a single DieHard […]