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Magnetic clothes hangers

Dnaiel writes – Clothes hangers and clothing spaces have largely remained in the sameformat over the years. Hangers usually consist of a styled wooden, plastic or metal frame upon which clothing rests, with a hook component at the top. Similarly, contemporary wardrobes often use a contained space with horizontal bar(s) upon which to place the […]

A Boybot and his Dogbot

A Boybot and his Dogbot

Dug North writes – I have made some additions and put the finishing touches on an automaton I started a few years ago: A Boybot and His Dogbot. Stylistically, this piece is different than my other automata in that I have used geometric shapes for the figures and have decided to leave the wood unfinished. […]

Oscilloscope art

Oscilloscope art

Ivanjs writes – If you’ve got a dual channel oscilloscope handy (got mine for $49 on ebay), you can create some amazing imagery using the X-Y mode setting and/or ADD setting). All you have to do is feed a separate signal (like a sine wave and a triangle wave for example) into each of the […]

The Marble machine 2

The Marble machine 2

Matthias writes – I hadn’t actually planned on building a second marble machine, but in March 2000 I had an idea for building a better marble elevating device, plus I had enough time on my hand to actually build a machine using this principle. And this is the machine I built… What inspired me to […]

Pipe lamp

Pipe lamp

Fzz (Prof.) writes – Following on from my previous Steampunk Lamp, here’s something a little more minimalist this time. I wasn’t aiming for it to look like anything in particular, but I vaguely had in mind the idea of water level gauges on steam locomotives. There’s still a little tweaking to do, but it finally […]