Make subscriber Scott House wrote in to let us know about BikeCAD and associated cycle design software from BikeForrest. BikeCAD is a parametric CAD tool used to design hardtail mountain bike and road bike frames. Other variants of the software are available to help produce full suspensions, recumbents, tandems, and custom wheels.
Here’s a beautiful video detailing designers Marc Newson’s process for making an hourglass. A huge cylinder of glass is placed on what appears to be a special lathe, and is then spun while heating to create the hourglass shape. Finally, metal beads are added until they take the appropriate amount of time to fall through the timepiece, and it is sealed up.
Highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool this week include a pinhole camera built from an eggshell, a collection of beautiful paper models of stellated polyhedra, a giant plush amoeba, a homemade spectroscope, and more!
Were the Easter eggs in your basket this morning as awesome as these Angry Birds eggs made by Flickr user youngergirl44? Ours weren’t! However, I think if my kids had these in their baskets they would have started chucking them at their building blocks… [via @craftycrafty] More: How-To: Needle-Felted Angry Birds Playable Angry Birds Cake […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw: Day 12 of 365, by Aimee Woodcock, rainbow marshmallow pops 3, by thedecoratedcookie, with tutorial, and Rainbow Gypsy Cuffs Bracelet, by Authentic Arts.
Building a coffin for his father was only part of the DIY story. He wanted to bring his father home himself.
Aubrey and Lindsay at Little House blog have a modern spin on Easter eggs this year with their Painted Rock Eggs.
