Richard2nd has put together a simple Instructable on building a digital pinhole camera. The comments mention that the sharper the edges on the pinhole, the greater the depth of field and the sharper the image. More: Pintoids – Pinhole cameras made from Altoid tins DIY High capacity panoramic pinhole camera
Cory at Boing Boing reports that Amazon will start selling the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop in November; they’ll be continuing the buy-two, get-one, donate-one system through December – great for holiday gift giving!
This is a great demo of block printing in India. (not my voice on the video) It’s amazing how accurately the printer can line up the successive prints by hand. The blocks themselves are gorgeous as objects; I have some that I’ve used in mold-making for casting glass.
Bonnie at StarWars.com shows you how to make a Rotta the Hutt Squeaky Pet toy by recycling your old clothes or socks.
I found this amazing marble machine on YouTube – the details are fantastic! The video is a little fuzzy, but there are some good close-ups of the workings.
Not martha found this great collection of paper box templates – great for gift boxes or storing bits ‘n’ bobs.
Paperforest points us to this excellent article about pop-up book design in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) newsletter. The article, by artist and paper engineer Ray Marshall and artist Wilson Swain, is about their book, The Castaway Pirates – I’ve seen this book, it’s complicated and awesome. The article starts on […]
