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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
These Obelisk chairs from Janus et Cie are amazing, but maybe not $9k amazing, looks like a fun (re)make could happen here – [via] Link.
Jrambow writes – I thought this was really cool. It’s a drum and bell machine I saw at Bangalore’s Bull Temple. You can see the motor to the left and how it’s connected to the drumsticks. It wasn’t going, unfortunately — would be fun to see it at work, and to see how you adjust […]
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 […]
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 […]
