MAKE Japan (staff photos)
Here are some photos of the AMAZING team from MAKE Japan (O’Reilly in Japan offices) – more soon and I’ll fill in captions/names on Flickr later!
Month: November 2007
Sculpty Earth: topographic globe with dynamic weather in Second Life
New World Notes posted an interview with Zora Spoonhammer, a Second Life hacker who created an enormous in-world earth model, complete with dynamic weather that’s pulled from real world weather sources: “Come back up here!” Zora Spoonhammer shouts after him, before he disappears over the horizon. “He’s my husband in real life. He’s silly that […]
Button Monograms
Nina Makes shows us how buttons can make a great way to do simple monograms like with this vintage embroidered pillow. Link.
Hello from Tokyo
Hello from Tokyo, internet access is a little tough for me at the moment where I am staying but there’s a daily way for me to get access now! The first day there was a quick trip to Ginza, (“Silver seat”) is considered one of the super-high end shopping areas of Tokyo. The toy store […]
Roomba meets the XO-1
No Roomba left behind. Here’s a cool Instructable on how to control and add telepresence to a Roomba using a OLPC XO-1 laptop. OLPC Telepresence – [via] Link
Embroidered Comic Book Cover
OK, so you can file this one under “Shameless Self-Promotion”, but I really wanted to share this embroidered comic book cover from this month’s Nickelodeon magazine. Each issue of Nick features a special comic book section within the magazine, and for the November issue my husband Johnny and I collaborated on this goofy monster-granny sampler, […]
Dollhouse Furniture Katamari
Jennie writes, I’ve recently become obsessed with the latest installment in Keita Takahashi’s brilliant Katamari Damacy series, Beautiful Katamari. I created my own real-fake Katamari from an assortment of dollhouse furnishings, hobby shop accoutrements, and toy stores oddities. Additionally, I hand made Pocky and Milky packages using inkjet prints on tiny boxes. The entire replica […]