Dominic Wilcox wants £159 for his 2002 piece War Bowl, which may make some amount of sense since Wilcox is a fairly well-established “name” artist, and the piece itself has been exhibited in various fancy places. Still, you can make your own version by partially melting a bunch of army men in a glass or metal bowl in the oven, and it’ll cost you just a buck or two. [via Gizmodo]
Michael Klein of Saskatoon, SK, created this cool meter using a PC fan and styrofoam ball. A simple hack but a fun one.
In the concluding fourth part of the car keys series on the MakerBot blog, a sturdy replacement housing for a cracked plastic keyfob is reproduced: One half has a 2mm lip and the other has a 2mm groove – the result is a case that required channel lock pliers to shut… but isn’t coming apart […]
From a life of recurring knee injuries, I’ve got a closet full of crutches. They’re useless as soon as I’m ambulatory, so I’ve been poking around for reuse projects. Flip those crutches upside down and you’ve got a snazzy pair of crutch stilts! And, as one commenter points out, if you injure yourself trying them […]
Hack Factory member Mike Hord built a motion-sensing widget for a local pizzeria’s restrooms — for the purpose of annoying them while they “rest”. Recently I was approached by an architecture/design firm to help with an electronic install at a client site. The client had requested a system that interacts with users in the bathroom- […]
Chris Yates‘ puzzle entitled “Depths” uses 407 pieces, built up in layers to fill the pond-like base. Many more photos illuminate his build process over on Flickr. [Thanks, Sam!]
Fluid Dress 2.0! Lovely video of blacklight-reactive fluid being pumped through the 600 ft of plastic tubing comprising this dress by Casual Profanity. We saw an earlier prototype at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009.
