Amigurumi Creature Hat
The latest from Japanese amigurumi superstar 203gow (pronounced niimarusango) is this “insect helmet” which looks to double as a cuddly-creepy friend.
Year: 2010
FIRST Championship team spotlight: Einstein’s Daughters
Here’s another team story from the FIRST championship in Atlanta next week! I had the opportunity to ask a few teams some questions, check ’em out! FIRST Tech Challenge Team 32: Einstein’s Daughters Einstein’s Daughters is an all-girl robotics team from San Diego. They’ve been in the world championship four years in a row. This […]
FIRST Championship team spotlight: Rock N Roll Robots
I’m delighted to share with you the stories of three stellar FIRST teams set to compete in the championship in Atlanta next week! I had the opportunity to ask the teams a few questions, check ’em out! FIRST Tech Challenge Team 25: Team Rock N Roll Robots Rock N Roll Robots is a Girl Scout […]
Sparebots par excellence
The idea of makin’ little dudes and dudettes from your leftover components is not new to us, but rarely have I seen it done with such élan as in these examples from Flickr user(s) Lenny&Meriel. There’s tons more! [via MAKE Flickr Pool]
How-To: Painted Parasol
A sweet parasol can be the perfect spring accessory, and Alisa Burke shows how to transform a paper parasol into a stunning work of art with nothing but a sharpie and some white acrylic paint.
Hexidecimal Scrabble tiles
NYC Resistor‘s Matt Joyce lasercut these neat unicode-compliant hex scrabble tiles. My new scrabble tile set provides game players with a fully international character set through the miracle of character set encoding standards. By using my entirely hexadecimal tile set you can deploy your scrabble words in full unicode, or simple ascii. I think however, […]
Reblown bottle glasses
Glassblower Nick Paul of Chicago drinks beer. (Hopefully, he has some friends who help him out with it, from time to time.) Then he takes the empty bottles and blows out their necks to make flat-sided tumblers. Then, in a stroke of packaging/marketing/recycling genius, he puts them back in their original six-packaging and sells them through his online storefront, Windy City Glass. The tumblers have smooth, rounded rims and are annealed to relieve internal stresses. No part of the original bottle is wasted. I love the green-on-green simplicity of his Heineken glasses, above, but the gestalt awesomeness of his Arrogant Bastard Ale tumblers, pictured below, may prove irresistible to me. If I know me, you folks have about an hour after this post goes up before I cave in and buy them for myself.