Shannon writes in – The How + Why is an electronic taxidermy installation that is part of the Parsons Design & Technology senior thesis exhibit. I was inspired by vintage How + Why Wonder books to create a fictional natural history museum display with animated creatures. The butterflies flap their wings, the deep sea fish […]
1440 rpms v8 LEGO engine via Jalopnik. The maker writes – I upgraded the engine to a double cam setup and voila, promptly got 440rpms more. For now i’m running the engine completly unlubed. If i optimize it a bit further i think i can make it to 1600 rpms. I wonder how an inline […]
Paul from the Compiler blog pointed out a cool flash application called FontStruct. It’s basically a WYSIWYG editor for fonts, allowing you to easily create a TrueType font of your own design without having to learn your way through all the intricacies and difficulties of professional fontography. The site includes a big gallery of Creative […]
[Editor’s Note: Sadly, we have been asked by representatives of Wim Delvoye to remove images of his work from this post. We think that such actions rarely serve the interests of the person they serve to protect, but we had little choice but to comply. As Tim O’Reilly says: “Obscurity is a greater threat than […]
Printed Circuit Boards by Andrew Argyle. Step-by-step instructions for making your own PCBs at home. Page 164 – MAKE 2. Read this article now in the MAKE digital edition. Or get MAKE 02 from the Maker store and/or subscribe to MAKE (use code CMAKE for $5 off USD). You can view all our in depth […]
This is my second year as an amateur beekeeper, and this last weekend we split our first hive, creating a second colony which will be relocated to a new home in the suburbs. In nature, bees will swarm to start a new hive. Half the colony wakes up one morning and decides it’s too crowded, […]
Tired of steampunk, you say? Maybe it’s time to ditch combustion altogether, kick it really old school, like with pedal-power, home-spun rope, bamboo, and coconuts. Welcome to cocopunk. What ya say, little buddy? It all started with this post by Mark Frauenfelder on D+R: In Praise of the Coconut Shell Although coconut shells do have […]
