Bascom Hogue Embroidery
The Silly Boodilly points out the interesting and unusual redwork embroidery of Bascom Hogue, which you can view on his Flickr account. He also just started blogging about his creations at the Cottonwood Diner.
Month: September 2008
New in the Maker Shed – Breadboards, baby
The Shed’s been blessed big-time with a brimmin’ batch of breadboarding bounty – Mini Breadboards, assorted colors Half the size of a half-size breadboard, this is perfect for tiny projects and for sticking onto the top of Arduino protoshields – available in 5 different colors! Half-Size Breadboard Measures 3.3†x 2.1†1 terminal strip with […]
Polaroid flipbook machine
The Chase Factory’s Process Enacted Mutoscope replays a sequence of 987 polaroid photos from an original short film. The concept of allowing the veiwer to control playback speed of visual sequence seems quite interesting – Mutoscope [via Wooster Collective]
Plant camoflages solar panels in its leaves
Although this looks like an ordinary plant, its leaves are actually made of a thin solar panel film along with a plastic covering to repel water in order to extend the life of this energy harvester. Interesting design although I think real plants might win out over this despite the ecological benefits. via Inhabitat
Giant mouse pointer hand will point you in the right direction
This 20 pound mouse pointer hand by artist Gus Baggermans counts 158 LEDs that are programmable per pixel line by a circuit built with an Arduino. Interesting take on the modern icon by this artist, although you probably wouldn’t want to turn this into a chair. 20 pound mouse hand
Flickr bike?
Wow, this is really cool – Gina from Lifehacker has a Flickr bike that geotags photos and uploads them to a map on Flickr… Solar panels too!
Bounce bike…
Popular Mechanics, 1935… Functioning on the principle of an eccentric rear wheel, the latest bicycle has neither gears nor a chain. Invented by Phil Huyseng of Chicago, the bike is propelled by a bouncing motion of the body. But wait, there’s more! Here’s one from “New Ideas for Living” (above) – the site says it […]