This isn’t a card you’d want to hand out like club fliers at a bus stop, but for a very select few recipients, it’d certainly make a statement. For this week’s EMS Labs project, Lenore shows you how she made these attention-getting cards. Lego business cards for the rest of us
Our final main event for MAKEcation 2009 is our “Family Challenge,” as in the Hatfields vs. the McCoys, the Lancasters vs. the Yorks, the Macs vs. the PCs. Okay, we really don’t want it to get that entrenched and bloody. It’s not even that much of a proper competition (in the end, the winner many […]
While I really like a lot of the “mechanical animism” folk-art sculpture that’s out there — people making robot sculptures out of found objects and retro appliances, comical scenes and dioramas using electronic components, cellphone charms and jewelry made out of electronic parts, etc. Most of it’s immobile. Silent. So, I particularly like this scorpion […]
Conductive body paint and Arduinos… Nilay @ Engadget writes – And you thought conductive paint was boring. Say hello to the Humanthesizer, a joint creation between electronic musician Calvin Harris, Sony Music UK, and Bare conductive body ink, which turned 15 bikini-clad ladies into a giant Arduino-powered synth capable of playing Harris’s track “Ready For […]
This is a follow up to our post late last year about “RealDVD” Realnetworks DVD back up software – the NYTimes is reporting that Realnetworks cannot sell their DVD copying software… The court did not appear to address the central question of whether consumers have the right to make backup copies of their DVDs, but […]
I spotted these nifty stools on the Inhabitat blog and immediately had two thoughts — these are super cool(!), and there’s gotta be a way to use the 6 or so skateboards scattered in my yard to make one myself (or a close facsimile thereof). After these thoughts, I immediately went to the maker’s website […]
Artist Samantha Hahn is having a huge, huge original art sale in her Etsy shop. She’s keeping things super affordable with prices ranging from $15-$100. Choose from watercolors on watercolor paper, pen on aged newsprint, pen and watercolor on specialty papers. Pictured here is the Eiffel Tower pen and watercolor. I have this same picture […]
