Via Jake at the Steampunk Workshop: A guy named Jonathan built this cool wood-inlaid monitor. I’m a computer engineer and cut marquetry part time so i decided to combine the two and fashion a monitor of my own. It’s seemingly a lot more difficult to get good quality brassware here in England than it is […]
From NYTimes.com: Perched high above an industrial stretch of East Williamsburg, a menacing robot nine feet high and seven feet wide surveys the street below, watching cars steal past graffitied factory buildings as if they were prey. Its fierce head sways and dips when a wooden rudder protruding from the back of its neck catches […]
“If we hadn’t made Blue Boxes, there’d be no Apple,” recounts Steve Jobs. Here’s him and Steve Wozniak on the subject. [via 9to5mac] More: The ol’ Blue Boxing. Good times, good times.
The latest from Denmark-based conceptual group N55: WALKING HOUSE is a modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It collects energy from its surroundings using solar cells and small windmills. There is a system for collecting rain […]
Evan Roth wants a Graffiti Markup Language tag recorder badly enough to pay 1200 euros for one. GML Field Recorder Challenge An easily reproducible DIY device that can unobtrusively record graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the city. Project Description and Design Requirements: The GML Field Recorder Challenge is a DIY […]
The Dumponaut, an art project envisioning a home made out of a dumpster. There are countless external controls on our existence, and a big one is the trade of capital for goods. The loophole lives in dumpsters: where there is surplus, there is an exit from the system. but it isn’t a true exit – […]
The engineering profession is usually pretty dry, but engineers generally have a great sense of humor.
