Cool free cut-and-fold block font
Cut on the solid lines, fold on the dashes, and glue on the striped tabs to create dimensional block letters of your text.
Imaging
Lovely 3D-printed skull
From Pat and Tim of BotHacker, printed on their RepStrap. STL files available on Thingiverse.
In which fabric “wall clings” win me over
They sent me a couple of samples, shown above, which I just now received and applied to my wall, and I am pleased to be able to report that the technology is apparently everything they claim. Plus the prints look great. They sent me the four-foot size, which they recommend applying with a friend, because you have to peel it off of a wax-paper backing and get it aligned and smooth on the wall and that’s a lot easier, with a large size, if you’ve got four hands. But I was able to do it by myself with only a minimum of swearing by just peeling off the top edge of the decal, aligning it and smoothing it down on the wall, and then reaching behind the hanging print to peel off the backing from the top down, smoothing the decal to the wall as I went. I just put them up a week ago, so I can’t report anything about how long the adhesive really lasts, or if it will really stay on the wall for months or years until I move. Or whether, when I do finally remove it, if it will really leave the wall undamaged. But this far into the product life-cycle, anyway, I am beyond impressed. The prints cling tight to the wall and, unless you look really close, appear to be painted on–like you’ve got custom murals painted right on your walls.
Hand-drawn animation in music video
Here’s a neat, mostly animated music video with roughly 3,000 frames drawn by hand. You should check it out!
DIY 3D photography using Processing
Over on O’Reilly Answers, Andrew Odewahn offers up a technique and a Processing script for creating “true” 3D photographs using anaglyphic stereoscopy. I tried these images on my 3D glasses and they look great. DIY 3D photography with Processing
Listening to light on a drive thru NYC
Eric Archer takes us along on a ride through NYC at night – with soundtrack courtesy of photodiode-to-audio circuit. The variety of sound produced may surprise you, considering how many of the light sources look so similar. Interestingly enough, some headlights end up sounding a lot like car/truck horns (keep an ear out for the […]
“Cuban Polaroid” is ultra-low-tech camera, darkroom all in one
It was a wooden box with the bellows and lens from a folding camera mounted at one end with a complete darkroom inside. Using photographic printing paper the photographer would expose a sheet of paper for the negative, develop, stop, and fix it inside the camera, then put a copy stand on the camera and photograph the negative (to obtain a positive), develop, stop, and fix, then wash the final print in a coffee can of water attached to his homemade tripod.
