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Library of strange compounds

Library of strange compounds

George Pendle wrote the highly-recommended Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, the biography of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons (whom I profiled in MAKE, Volume 13). In Saturday’s Financial Times, George writes about the Materials Library at King’s College, London. Deep in the bowels of a brutalist concrete building on the […]

Embroidered safety bike

Embroidered safety bike

Flickr user JerryLeeTypes has a clever collection of embroidered images. The safety bike above reminds me of some of the pictures Danny was lasering onto books a few months ago. He also has some other great products in his Embroidery set, and there are some other cool projects in the Real Men Sew and Manbroidery […]

Teaching mirrors new tricks

Teaching mirrors new tricks

Andrew Hicks, a mathemagician at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, has lately made headlines with one of those head-slappingly simple, brilliant, OMG-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that sort of projects: He makes mirrors. Not the run-of-the-mill flat mirrors most of us use every day for identifying vampires, but totally unorthodox, heretical, downright blasphemous mirrors with convoluted surfaces that do tricks I didn’t […]