The Bamboo Bike Project is a collaboration between scientists and engineers at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and a bicycle builder at Calfee Design. The project aims to examine the feasibility of implementing cargo bikes made of bamboo as a sustainable form of transportation in Africa. The ultimate goals of the project are: 1.To […]
We posted about Cathy Kasdan’s plastic bag dresses earlier last year here and they were featured in CRAFT: 04. Cathy sent a note to Threadbanger about her recycled plastic shopping bags dresses and we had to share the love again for these beautiful pieces. You can see all the photos in her Flickr set. She […]
French artist Vincent Lamouroux built this cool pedal cycle to travel along abandoned French Aerotrain monorail tracks. I love it when the future is already in ruin. Vincent Lamouroux – [via] Link
Green Kitchen has made this absolutely adorable kids sweater apron! I love the stripy colors and the perfectly coordinated light blue trim. Link.
Does Willy Wonka know about this? From Boing Boing: Sounds like an awesome band name, but chocolate biodiesel is in fact what one vehicle ran on, in a 4-week trek from the UK to Timbuktu. A group known as BioTruck modded a 1989 Ford Iveco Cargo to run entirely by biodiesel made from chocolate — […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Member Chris Metcalf constructed this flash snoot from corrugated cardboard and gaffer tape. Although it may sound like the name of a Dr. Suess character, a snoot is a sort of choke used in photography to limit the spread of light from a flash. Snoot’s can create an eerie vignetting […]
Metabiosis final design Metabiosis underlying circuits “Metabiosis” is a collection of works about digital life and autonomous creation processes. In “Pond” (pictured), three connected devices run a simple ecosystem that is visualized in real-time on the displays. Some really nice info at the link below of the prototyping process. Pictured above from prototype stage to […]
