Confetti Dipped Balloons
Kick your party balloons up a notch by dipping them in gold confetti! Via Studio DIY
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What IF…Festival of Innovation and Imagination
What IF… Festival: Don’t miss the geeky gadgets, DIY demos, cool experiments, new technologies, hands-on learning, and live performances! September 7th, 10am-4pm in Colorado Springs, CO.
How-To: Hand-Lettering on a Balloon
I love the classic feel of hand-lettered signs and decorations, don’t you? Bring a bit of that old time-y whimsey to your next party with a hand-lettered balloon!
Raspberry Pi in the Sky!
PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]
How-To: Make a Chocolate Bowl Using a Balloon
Oh, heck yeah! [Spotted on Facebook]
Romanian Teenager Puts Space Shuttle Back in Space
On January 5, 2012, Raul Oaida posted the following update to his blog: “On the 31st of December I launched the Black Sky project payload with two HD cameras. I recovered the rig ~240km awaydownrange (320km on the highway) in excellent condition from a hill in a remote area.” About a month later, he posted the embedded video to YouTube. The entry on his blog from that date kinda says it all: “This was all done by me.”
“Elastic Park” Balloon Art Dinosaurs
Although I must admit having had my fill of awkward “origami” portmanteaux, there is no denying that balloon artist Larry Moss and his team of talented “Airigami” designers and sculptors are producing some pretty amazing work.
