Alan shows you how to make a LED lamp from …”the beautiful blue glass bottle that the Bawls soft drink comes in. I tried one the other day and thought the glass bottle could be used for something interesting. At first I was just going to stick an LED into it, but I wanted something […]
Eric writes, “Origami artist Joel Cooper has created some utterly amazing work, which includes these realistic looking sculptural masks of human faces. And they really do look real. This guy is a genre all unto himself, and is really worth checking out. Nobody out there is doing anything like this, and he’s starting to receive […]
In between robot battles at Seattle Bot Battle IV, I got a chance to interview Scott Ferguson about his computer controlled CNC etchasketch. He can make his computer control the etchasketch. Scott usually makes robots that kill other robots, but took up the kinetic art challenge for the event. One of the things that impressed […]
Gever writes – “Back for it’s second year, the group that built a rollercoaster in two days is accepting applications for the summer sessions. This year we are offering two weeks of barely controlled chaos for kids ages 7 to 17 – call it tinkering, call it materials hacking, or call it “fooling around like […]
Photojojo shows you how to put your photos on cupcakes – “Just when you thought cakes and cupcakes couldn’t get any better, here come the happy and fun-loving folks over at Icing Images. Simply send them your digital photograph and they send you back edible icing! Lickety split! Your tasty photo icing arrives as sheets […]
Rick writes – “Here are several detailed projects to make using LEDs. How to make an 180 LED colour changing flood light. How to make a joule theif and suck the very last of the power out of that battery you thought was dead.” – Link. We’ve covered this site before, but it’s always worth […]
Douglas Irving Repetto’s amazing painting machine! – “Giant Painting Machine (Milano) is a simple electro-mechanical system built largely from found parts and scrap materials. It paints complex and dynamic abstract images on four transparent walls by tracing continuous, cycling paths across large sheets of clear mylar. Because GPM is a wiggly mechanical device, the nature […]
