Territorial Knitting by Lauren Marsden
Canadian artist Lauren Marsden created knitted street signs for every street she has lived on in Victoria, BC. She based the design and the font off of each individual street sign. [via] Link.
Month: December 2007
HOW TO – Fossilize your hamster
This book looks great, here’s the blurb from Amazon… – How can you measure the speed of light with a bar of chocolate and a microwave oven? To keep a banana from decaying, are you better off rubbing it with lemon juice or refrigerating it? How can you figure out how much your head weighs? […]
Hacking mice to better control cameras in 3D space
The “Three Blind Mice” project takes three old mechanical mice and connects them up to an AVR microcontroller to feed their input into a PC to control 3D graphics in VVVV. Nice hack with a how-to included. Three Blind Mice – Link
Homemade Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet
Christian sent in his homemade Ms Pacman cocktail cabinet, check out the 10 pages of build photos! – Link.
Best of CRAFT
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Trombone Cozy – Link. Knit Lobster – Link. Fun with Casting Resin – Link. Cassette Tape Business Card Case – Link. HOW TO – Flat Pack Desk – Link.
Eavesdropping on Bluetooth headsets
Here’s a short video in which Joshua Wright demonstrates how a Bluetooth headset can be hijacked, allowing audio to be captured or sent to the device: Few users realize that Bluetooth headsets can be exploited granting a remote attacker the ability to record and inject audio through the headset while the device is not in […]
Figure mods at ComicCon ’07
Cory Doctorow posted (to Boing Boing) an image and link to his Flickr set of photos he took at ComicCon of action figure modders and their cool creations. Action figures set – Link Related: Mashing up your own action figures – Link Hand-made action figures… made LIVE! – Link