Home-made hammers
On Street Use, Kevin Kelly has a few pics of hand-made bike-building tools, spotted in bike shops in Rwanda. Rwandan Hammers
Remake
HDD grinding wheel?
Now you can add “grinder/sander” to the list of goofy things you can do with a corrupted hard disk drive. Turn a Dead Hard Drive into a Grinder or Sander
Lamps made from micro-cassettes
We found these gorgeous lamps, made from clear-cased micro-cassettes, on Boing Boing Gadgets. This seems like a cool, easy project that you could also do with full-sized clear cassettes (you’d just want to use fewer of them so your lamp wouldn’t be huge). Check out the cool patterns the light makes. Transparent House Note: This […]
Digimech clock
Duncan Shotton’s digimech clock via NOTCOT. Numbers are printed on vertical sliders and only reveal themselves when shifted into perfect alignment with the ‘display box’. When not aligned they look like random, alien forms…
Uber Ultraman
Artomatic, the gargantuan art free-for-all (1000 artists!), recently closed in DC. I went five times and never saw all ten floors. One “trend” I saw in the art was the use of action figures, dolls parts, and toys in a lot of the work. One guy used the doors of vintage refrigerators, torn open as […]
Magnetic cash money clip
If you’re of the ultraslim wallet persuasion, you may be interested in this simple hack to hold your wad: tape a magnet and a piece of metal to opposite sides of a dollar bill to create an outer case for your bills, and ditch that binder clip that keeps poking you in your pocket. Just […]
Bike blimp remake?
This pedal-powered inflatable recently used to cross the English Channel has definitely piqued somebody’s interest, and understandably so. Trumann writes – If there is a way to remake this human-powered aircraft, it must happen. This article is about taking a trip via bicycle-blimp, but the concept is too awesome not to fantasize about building one […]
