Embroidered Family Handprints
I love, love, love this embroidered handprint idea from Plum Pudding. What a wonderful gift this would make–instant family heirloom!
Month: December 2008
Symphony for 54 Shoes by Ingrid Bachmann
What do you do with 27 pairs of used shoes? If you’re like Ingrid Bachmann, you would make them into interactive art. Each shoe has a toe and heel tap used in tap dancing attached to it. The shoes move or dance independently of each other. The mechanical motion of tapping is created using solenoids […]
Michel Bayard pinhole photography
Super Forest has a nice write-up about Michel Bayard, a pinhole camera photographer out of New York. A few years back I was walking through the city and I passed a man selling photos. What instantly caught my eye was that each photo was exactly the size of one frame of film, no enlargements, a […]
Remake the World
I plan to begin covering efforts to make change under what I’m calling Remake. I invite you to share your ideas and your projects with me (dale at oreilly dot com) and I’d like to tell others about what you’re doing to remake the world.
Cabin Fever Expo 2009
The image above is a 1/6 Scale 1932 Duesenberg SJ by Louis Chenot, Model Engineer. It’s just one of hundreds of amazing works on display at the Cabin Fever Expo. It’s a great event that features a lot of amazing work and equipment. If you are a machinist or model maker, this is a MUST […]
HOW TO – Fabric Wall Mural
IKEA Hacker points us to this wall mural tutorial from Pinot and Dita, who used a mix of IKEA fabrics and paint to create this tree-themed artwork.
Maker courses
Creating a Maker Course In the next month or so I will have a semester change, and with it an opportunity to restructure the sequence of three courses. Robotics, Building and Repairing Computers and Web Design are three classes that I have taught before, and am looking to streamline the content of the courses. The […]