TriGears by Oskar van Deventer, and Bram Cohen via Jorn… TriGears is a special puzzle. There are three gears set so that turning one gear turns the other two. If the three gears were in a flat plane they would, of course, jam. Oskar had the gears bevelled and set them at 60 degrees so […]
Urban Prankster writes – Montreal group Les Fourmis came up with a clever use for campaign signs after the recent Canadian election– turn them into birdhouses and put them up around the city. I wonder how many millions of campaign signs there are in the US right now heading to a landfill? Photo set here.
The Pimp Stitch embroidery blog just celebrated their 100th post, so as a special treat for their readers, Sublime Stitching’s Jenny Hart has contributed a downloadable sampler mix of patterns from her site (including the one above). Nice!
Whip Up released their first ever calendar for 2009 featuring 13 artists, designers and crafters from the site. The calendar is available for print on demand at redbubble.
Here is another great idea form James Li. This time he used some scrap cardboard and an old case fan to make a laptop cooler. Let’s just hope his laptop does get too hot, cardboard ignites easily. My laptop needs to be slightly elevated to cool it down, so here is a laptop cooler (unfortunately, […]
Do you have a first generation iPod touch? If you do, this is a cheap way to make an external speaker, and stand, so you can enjoy hours of YouTube goodness without the need for headphones. Seeing that Apple have sneakily added an internal speaker to the iPod touch Gen II, my Gen I felt […]
Laurie spotted jbl thistle’s Band-Aid Bear on Flickr. This little guy is made with band-aids, thread, wool stuffing and sewn by machine and hand.
