Dodecahedral protoboard with 3D-printed connectors
These printable connectors, designed by Thingiverse user mrule, allow you to assemble twelve of SparkFun’s pentagonal protoboards into a dodecahedron.
Year: 2011
Math Monday: Five tetrahedra
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Here is a geometric assembly challenge which you can try to make with wooden dowels or any other conveniently long cylinders. Each of these thirty aluminum rods touches ten others. The construction is rather tricky to accomplish even if you properly understand it as a compound of […]
Spock Seed Bead Art
Craftster user, Feast Your Eyes, created this rad beaded Spock that was recognized as one of the Craftster Best of 2010. Indeed! Related: Spock Matza Spock Ears Knitting Pattern Star Trek Cross Stitch Crochet Star Trek Diaper Cover How-To: Knit Star Trek Potholders
Prolific supermagnet sculptor’s prodigious portfolio
Programmer Dimitry Tishchenko builds geometric sculptures with supermagnets. Like, lots and lots of them. The eighty thumbnails on this page represent only about 10% of the shots in his frankly amazing Flickr set. [via Neatorama]
Lovely junk-built crystal radio
Craig Smith (South Milwaukee, WI) writes: With all of the junk I accumulated, I thought it would be neat to make a crystal radio as a low impact project in the evenings. I unwound the coated wire from a small useless 115V brushless motor that I almost tossed out several times, and wound it about […]
Boba Fett imagined as a Spartan
This beautiful mash-up prop is reportedly by Jon Wollack of Almost Dark Productions. You can take your pick between the obligatory Empire quote with a 300 reference and the obligatory 300 quote with an Empire reference. Off the top of my head, I’d go with “I want them alive: No decapitations!” and “Tonight we dine in Cloud City!”, respectively. Think you can do better? Let me know, below!
555 contest up and running
The 555 contest was conceived by Jeri Ellsworth and Chris Gammell in a conversation on Twitter, and now it’s going to happen. This contest came about in mid-January 2011 on Twitter. Jeri began talking about 555 timers and excitement built up enough to start doing something about it! The organizers of the contest have no […]
