Chocolate guns and ammo
Your one-stop shop for chocolate guns, chocolate bullets, and chocolate grenades is ChocolateWeapons.com. I’m holding out for the chocolate suitcase nuke. [via Boing Boing]
Made On Earth
Awesome flying drawbridge
This thing is called the “Slauerhoffbrug,” and it lives in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. The road section is lifted on a single massive counterbalanced arm up to 90 degrees in the air. There’s a good photo gallery, including aerial views, over on frozenly.com. [via Neatorama]
“Invisible” semi-trailer
Transparentius, by noted Russian design firm Art Lebedev, consists of a semi-trailer equipped with a projector that displays the view from a forward-looking camera on the back of the trailer. [via Neatorama]
Cool maze-box on Thingiverse
Thingiverse user wizard23 designed this cool puzzle box (which he calls the “A-Mazing Box”) using a custom Python script and Clifford Wolf’s freeware OpenSCAD program, then printed it on a MakerBot. His script lets you import your own maze as a PNG so you can design one with a unique solution.
Sweet vacuum tube clock build
Jason von Nieda put together this awesomely dramatic vacuum tube clock built around a Russian IV-18 nixie tube. He sites Adafruit’s Ice Tube Clock for inspiration and credits John Pfeiffer for the enclosure design.
Xmas-themed Lego ray gun
Flickr user Andrew Colunga describes this awesome Lego ray gun as “X-maspunk.” [via Boing Boing]
Vertebrae necklace
A beautiful piece of glass-filled nylon jewelry, which I think was a senior design project, from Molly Epstein of Temple University. [via Boing Boing]
