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Another from Shadowstitch- he picked up a wooden velociraptor skeleton model from the thrift store, sadly someone took all the parts out. But, that didn’t stop him from making, he used the pillaged toy as a template to trace the bone patterns, then made a huge version. This is a great idea…
Gas, Tires, Oil writes “A blog entry about cutting 2′ section out of the middle a metal futon frame and welding the halves back together. The original mattress still fits, but now the short way is side to side and the futon takes up much less room”. Link. The rest of the blog has a lot of great stuff too…
The Box Doodle Project asks its participants to cut up a cardboard box, doodle on it, turn it into a work of art, take a photo and post it to a collective gallery. the rules are quite simple: rearrange a box to make any kind of figure or object. make the most of least. [via] Link. Here’s my version, made from an iPod box.
First this one, and now…I went to my local thrift store today to see what I could find. Every now and then I can find something really good. Today was a good day. I found this UNOPENED, still shrink-wrapped, board game called Computer Rage that is copyright 1977 by Creative Computing Magazine. It has classic, retro art on the front and the gameplay itself is so incredibly geeky! How many games do you know that have a space labelled “Output Queue”? It even uses three binary dice (so you can roll 0-7)! Link.
I’ll go and check this out this weekend! Non-fiction books checked out and returned at the Seattle Central Library amount to approximately 37000 items per day. From now on, the circulation of books will float in color-coded streams across six big plasma screens located on a glass wall behind the librarians’ main information desk. Link.
Atomic Fireballs are made in large rotating pans that are heated by a gas flame. Each piece of candy is formed around a single grain of sugar that is added to the pan. The candy maker, called the “panner,” adds liquid sugar to the rotating pan. This liquid sugar sticks to each grain of sugar, making a hard candy shell. This process is repeated more than 100 times over a two week period, increasing the size of the Atomic Fireball to a one inch ball. Link.
Modding a camera phone to see infared on the jaa blog “I hacked up my mobile phone camera a few months ago to make it sensitive to Infrared as well as the Visible wavelengths of light. I have been meaning to share the hack with others, so finally here it is!”… [