Gallery: 9 Giant Lego Animals
Artist Sean Kenney’s solo exhibition features huge foxes, frogs, butterflies, and bees constructed entirely of Legos
Month: March 2015
TIE Fighter Drone Mod is Coolest Since Millenium Falcon
Oliver, the maker of the incredible Millenium Falcon quadcopter we shared recently, is back with yet another impressive creation. This time he has tackled the iconic Tie Fighter Interceptor. Much like the Millenium Falcon build, he’s using foam to loosely represent the shape. When flying around, the illusion is quite convincing! Here are a few […]
Thinify Your Project Enclosure Using Layers of PCB
Enclosure design can be a daunting task. Unfortunately, it is a task that nearly every project will require. A forum user at the EEVblog has taken a very elegant approach to his enclosure design by constructing the entire thing from PCB. One possible benefit from this design is that getting PCB milled might be much […]
DIY Decor: Moon Phase Wall Mobile
If you’re a space geek and/or your bedroom is in need of a DIY wall art upgrade, you definitely can’t go wrong with a soothing moon phase wall mobile!
X-Carve: Inventables Launches New Line of Workshop CNC Machines
Inventables is known for the open-source, easily-modded Shapeoko 2 CNC machine. Today, they break ways with that brand as they launch their own machine, dubbed X-Carve, and with it bring a number of upgrades and new features to the DIY subtractive-manufacturing community. The Shapeoko line began with Edward Ford‘s $300 proof of concept CNC machine kit, funded […]
How-To: Egg Carton Cherry Blossom Branch
If you’ve got the wintertime blues, this spring-inspired egg carton cherry blossom branch tutorial is sure to make you smile!
Unreal Miniature Dioramas of Batmobile, Urban Decay
The scale models and dioramas of Tokyo-based artist Satoshi Araki are so incredibly life-like, you almost need his Gulliver-sized hand in the frame to reveal the truth behind these Lilliputian worlds. Amazingly, he uses a lot of Styrofoam to build the basic structures for his often-dark, often urban-themed dioramas, along with model kits, kit-bashed parts, […]
