Artist Greg Brotherton makes incredible metal mythology statures – pictured here, “The rise of discord” – A mechanical representation of Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Constructed from a framework of steel rods around a functioning mechanical skeleton. Skinned with hammer formed steel panels that are welded for a riveted look and coated […]
Like most craftspeople one of my favorite things is a trip to the local craft store. We don’t have mega monster super craft stores in New York, so a road trip to the suburbs makes this event even more exciting. The goal of this trip was to find items in a regular craft store that […]
The latest Gadget Freak from Design News show you how to build a quarter-sized temperature recorder – NASA engineer Bob Wilson devised a technological solution for a bureaucratic problem: convince building maintenance that his office was frigid in the morning. By the time anyone responded to a call, the heat was on. So he programmed […]
Speaking of grannies, here’s the Japanese version gone hip again as these belly warmers take to the Tokyo streets according to Ping mag. It looks like a great easy to make fashion statement that you can knit up in no time. [ via ] Link.
Matt sent in his mechanical hit counter, go ping it! I’ve always subscribed to the Rube Goldberg School of Engineering Design, the philosophy of which is “simple, elegant solutions are for the unimaginative”. These are words I can live by. Overengineered designs are where Art and Science meet, eye each other up a bit, sink […]
With all the crochet ripple madness going on, tricia of bits and bobbins goes knit, making cool zig zags with bright colors and different textures as well. Check out her knit pattern on how you can make this too! Link.
Ken writes – Here’s the latest thing I’ve made using those nifty color-changing LEDs. It’s another wall-hanging piece, broken into a grid of pixels that cycle through various colors. One might imagine that it’s continually outputting a series of randomly-generated low-resolution computer icons. But if you lay it down flat one could also imagine that […]
