Pop-up Lego Zen temple is itself wonderfully Zen
It’s like a pop-up book, kind of, except way more complicated and expensive and made of Lego elements by YouTube user talapz. Words fail me, too. [via The Brothers Brick]
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Galaxy quilts
Rachel @ CRAFT writes: This collection of space-inspired quilts from artist Jimmy McBride have left me breathless.
Emperor’s Castle amazing papercraft
Geoff at BLDGBLOG writes: For his student thesis project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive narrative world, complete with origami-filled hand-cut book pages and an elaborate model of the story’s architectural landscape. Hillier’s project was called The Emperor’s Castle and it was inspired by the work of Japanese printmaker Hiroshige.
GPS-enabled puzzle box opens only at Île-de-Bréhat, France
The first presenter at last Thursday’s Dorkbot Austin was a gentleman named Mikal Hart, who described his “Reverse Geocaching Puzzle.” Designed and built as a wedding gift for an old friend moving to France, the box incorporates an Arduino with a custom shield. A prominent button on the lid, when pressed, returns a distance, in kilometers, on the LCD display (if a GPS signal can be acquired), and counts button-presses up to 50 atttempts. No directional information is provided, so the box must be moved about in order to triangulate the location it wants. Mikal also included a cunningly-disguised back door to allow it to be opened in the event of battery failures or bugs.
72 pencils = 1 sweet sculpture
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr pool member fdecomite shares his recreation of George Hart’s geometric sculpture, 72 Pencils – the intersection of four hexagonal tubes.
Kiel Johnson’s cardboard twin lens reflex camera
Cardboard art virtuoso Kiel Johnson builds a giant twin lens reflex camera in this time-lapse video. Check out his other amazing cardboard creations on his site. [via Hi-Fructose] Kiel Johnson
Log radio is better than bad, it’s good
A beautiful wooden radio from designers Solène Le Goff and Christophe Gouache. Solar and/or wind-up powered. [via Dude Craft]