Butterfly modification art
Artist Marta de Menezes uses a hot needle to cauterize designs and patterns in the wings of butterflies as they develop in the cocoon – Link.
Month: August 2006
USB Party pup
Machineproject writes “I was preparing to teach the usb workshop we’re doing with Make on Sunday at Machine, and I remembered this funny usb powered sculpture that I made a couple years ago. The best part about it was that the motor spinning the mirror ball made the whole thing tremble, so it did a […]
HOW TO – Make an inflatable Moai
Bill writes “Here’s a build log of our Inflatable Moai project. We converted two Halloween lawn decorations into 9′ Moai for the Tiki Invasion show this past weekend @ the Mission Tiki Drive-in in Montclair, CA.” – Link. Wikipedia – Moai are statues carved from compressed volcanic ash on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The statues […]
$25 Potato canon
GlassX writes “Here’s how to build a powerful yet incredibly simple potato gun for $25.” – Link. More potato cannon-ing: HOW TO – Make an end-around pneumatic (potato) cannon – Link. High Tech Potato Cannon – Link. HOW TO – Make a copper pipe potato gun – Link. TRANSPARENT PVC Clear for potato cannon – […]
DIY Turntable
Stokes writes “I’ve seen scores of homebrew MP3 players, radio receivers, et cetera, but this is a first for me: a totally homebrewed turntable. Even the tone arm was DIY. The fact the thing is built largely out of plywood, thread and Harley-Davidson parts yet looks quite professional makes it even more exceptional.” – Link.
Holding a flashlight for awkward work
So -that’s- why everyone wore ties in the old days – Popular Science 1940 – Link.
Turning a Sony stereo into an iPod boombox
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Crabzoid is making an iPod boombox from an old Sony stereo – “Like my last “casemod” I’ve taken an old piece of sony product and turned it into a fancy ipod case. The ipod fits into the cassette slot and a hidden audio jack routs the music to the speakers.” […]