Michael Frumin from Eyebeam writes – “Over the last 2 weeks or so, I worked with Jerry Paffendorf of Electric Sheep and Second Life future salons to capture and 3D print his SecondLife avatar, with his SecondLife ‘Slegway.’ We had some success after a couple iterations, learning a good lesson about what you just can’t […]
There are tons of kid (and adult) friendly crafts over at starwars.com. I love this Chewie Tissue Box Cozy or the cuddly felt Yoda doll. From the site, “Make one-of-a-kind Star Wars crafts using everyday materials just laying around the house. Print out masks to use for your own Star Wars plays, construct your very […]
This Maker took 20 old MSN TV 2’s and clustered them together, now they’re all running Linux. Here’s how he did it – Link.
“David Jones has built a number of ingenious ‘fake’ perpetual motion machines for museums and trade shows. These are beautifully made of bicycle wheels, sewing machine parts, plumbing hardware and other embellishments. They are displayed in glass or clear plastic cases with no obvious means for energy input. Observed by visitors daily, they slowly turn, […]
Whip up has got a nice round up today of great knitting podcasts to check out. Link.
Mister Joshua writes – “Apparently some NES cartridges contain a removable/reusable adapter that enables one to place the guts of a Famicom game inside an NES cartridge and play it on any American NES console. A step-by-step guide is provided, along with useful tips for determining whether flea market cartridges contain a Famicom adapter.” Link.
Currently on display at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Feb 14 – April 9) in Warsaw, Poland, is the crochet artwork of Louise Weaver. Weaver crochets “skins” on tops of various 3d objects including taxidermists’ forms of native Australian animals. [ via ] Link.
