My latest guilty SkyMall pleasure is this “Moloniki” transparent polycarbonate canoe by Clear Blue Hawaii. It’s 13′ long, 3′ wide amidships, and almost 1′ deep, and the polycarb is UV-stabilized to prevent sun-yellowing. Of course it looks cool, but what is really attractive, to me, is the prospect of being able to see what’s going […]
Photo from Paul and Sabrinas EV Stuff Nikki likes this open source Electric Vehicle controller project. With an EV, your primary components are the motor, batteries, charger and the controller. If people can develop a design that will allow a more inexpensive and high quality motor controller, they can move the technology in a good […]
Peter Marigold designed this ellipse “chaos” table that slides open to accept a number of different leaves. Looks great for backyard buffets and ripe for a remake. Via NOTCOT.
Nice retread of the familiar oil-drum-chair concept, which manages to actually connect the form of the drum and the function of the chair in a rational way. There are four rubber feet–two in front and two in back–and the arc between them can be adjusted to set how far the seat rocks, presumably all the […]
So you’ve got a pile of spent CDs you’d rather not toss into a landfill and a shiny new iPhone 3GS in need of a dock. What are you going to do?
From the MAKE Flickr pool Behold Igaaks’ CNC plasma torch-cut sunglasses, as demoed at a recent TechShop Durham monthly meeting – Material is copper, bent by hand, then heat treated, then coated with acrylic. […] The only thing it might need is some kind of padding for the nose, and after talking with folks at […]
So, what to do with a slightly-used booth from Maker Faire? Well, if you’re Dino, of DinoFab, you make a food prep/passthrough counter for your kitchen. Nice that he’s still wearing the shirt, too. Memories. DinoFab
