Paul writes “Tim Hunkin is an amazing maker I learned about at Burning Man, where I saw a machine inspired by his work (“Disgusting Spectacle” — a giant nose-picking machine). He’s built a beachfront arcade-full of unique and funny coin-operated amusement machines in England. Watch this 9-minute BBC film about Tim, showing how he modifies old arcade machines and creates new ones– film linked at bottom of page”. Link.
A while ago I mentioned an idea that I had about creating a “work blind”. I actually ended up doing it. I had [info]buttercup666 stand in my neighbor’s cubicle and take a picture of me hard at work. Then I straightened the photo, undistorted it, and cropped it to the area in the doorway. I took it to Kinko’s where they printed it onto vinyl, and grommeted the top with a kit that [info]matrushkaka bought me. The result: The Work Blind. Think of it as the modern version of Jughead drawing eyes on his eyelids so that everyone thinks he’s awake and paying attention all day. [via] Link.
Neat project from Kaufmann’s lab…I found a USB-IDE cable online that would allow me to build my own external hard drive. Since I had a spare 40GB drive at home, I had everything I needed except for something to stuff it all in. After thinking about it for a bit, I decided to see if it would work inside of an old gutted tape recorder. This project was a lot of fun, and ended up costing me less than $20, since I had an unused drive. Thanks Brad! Link.
John sent in his USB Flash Drive HotWheels car mod. I stuffed a USB Flash Drive into a HotWheels Ferrari convertible. Basically, I had a USB drive that the case had fallen off and chose this opportunity to mod a different case rather than gluing the old case back on. I also made a little video of the build using a modded CVS camera. Link.
Miles off the paved highway and at the end of a long, bumpy driveway that cuts deep into the woods, Mick Womersley puts the finishing touches on his solar panel-topped home. It’s not your ordinary rural dwelling, even one designed to be ecologically sound. Womersley, a human ecology professor, and his wife Aimee Phillippi live comfortably in a house built of roughly 200 straw bales. Link.
This game eliminates intimidation of many kids and their parents, bored by the mention of “computer programming”, often associated with visions of geeky guys glued to their computers. c-jump reveals simple programming terms in a cool way! [
This is a really nice gallery of hand carved PC parts by a Russian maker, all out of Redwood with neat looking scrollwork.