Skateboard Paper Cut Animation
Tilles Singer made this skateboard animation with “a ton of digital photos, a ton of real life magazines, an hour of recording music.” Skaters do tricks off of books and papercraft landscapes. [via @fi5e]
Year: 2010
Etched brass LED light
I love this ornate and colorful light that Japanese maker Keisuke Matsushita created with RGB LEDs and a beautiful etched brass enclosure. Keisuke’s site is in Japanese but you can still get a sense of how he made this project.
Hot-wire cut styrofoam chair
The Wip Chair, by Khodi Feiz, is a chair cut from a single piece of polystyrene foam. Basically the design was modeled in the computer, and something like a giant hot wire cutter carved out the form. The chair was mass produced and used in an installation at the Dutch embassy in Berlin in June 2006, called NL-Lounge.
How-To: Machine Quilting Loopy Flowers
Elizabeth at Oh, Fransson! shares her awesome technique for creating beautiful loopy flower patterns with machine quilting. As she mentions, it’s a technique for seasoned quilters, but what fun it would be to try! Also be sure to check out the amazing vintage quilts she shares in a subsequent post.
Evelin Kasikov’s cross-stitched CMYK alphabet
Evelin Kasikov’s cross-stitched CMYK alphabet via Waxy… CMYK Alphabet is a typographic experiment, a set of 26 sans-serif uppercase letterforms on a grid of 5×5 inch. Each letter is hand embroidered using a combination of two overlapping CMYK colours. The colours are halftoned at 90 and 45 degrees and these low resolution screens are turned […]
A room full of dancing Nao robots
The Aldebaran Robotics Nao robot is highly expressive and is quite the sight to see by itself. Each Nao robot is about the size of a small child and can interact with users through multiple sensory input. Now imagine a room full of 20 Nao robots dancing in unison. A most impressive, er, feat indeed.
New in the Maker Shed: Maker Faire PumLantern kit
Special Maker Faire version! Meet the PumLantern – a solar-charged, night-time activated light-pulsing lantern! This new pummer features even brighter LEDs than the old HexPummer, as well as stylized lantern construction