These crayon carvings made in the likeness of the superstars of football are unbelievably cool. Diem Chau carved 66 crayons, in sets for some World Cup press kits. I can’t even imagine the process… I break crayons just coloring with them! Her site, The Pleasure of Tiny Things has great photos of each player, and […]
This is a concept design, aka Rain Drum, from one Dong Min Park, whose personal web presence, if it exists, seems to be eluding me, possibly because it originates somewhere in Asia and is completely orthogonal to my English-language googling.
Another hint that whoever created these images is not a native English speaker: The onomatopoeia he or she has chosen for the sound of rain striking the membranes is “doom,” which is not exactly great marketing, but is pretty amusing, both in and of itself, and because it evokes The Doom Song from Invader Zim.
The Antipasto folks have a short tutorial on how to assemble battery powered touchscreen BeagleBoard gadgets. There’s minimal soldering involved, but well worth heating up the iron.
The new TV-B-Gone Pro is a marvel to behold! TV-B-Gone Pro works the same way the TV-B-Gone keychain works, but it is way more powerful because it has more emitters and uses a bigger battery. Instead of the batman-like keychain, this new version looks like a small mP3 player, it even has a headphone jack […]
There’s a great thing that happens, every so often, when people have access to machine tools: They go a little bit nuts. They’re bumping along one day, doing what they do, and some mundane object crosses them for the last time. This or that thing never works as well as it should, or breaks too easily, or gets misplaced once too often, and it occurs to them: Hey, I could fix that–and not just for myself, for today or for the next couple of weeks or months, but for the rest of my natural life and possibly those of my descendants for the foreseeable future of the species. And something like this solid 6061 aluminum Scotch tape dispenser from Henry Herndon is the result. The sea may be vast, our boats may be small and constantly buffeted by the gales of an indifferent universe ruled by a howling demon of entropy, but that Scotch-tape-dispenser-problem is fixed now, by God. On to the next thing.
Here’s the video of Adam Savage’s wonderful talk at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010, captured by our friends at FORA.tv. Adam Savage Presents Problem Solving: How I Do It — Maker Faire More: Adam Savage, at Maker Faire, talking on the importance of failure
The LoL Shield is a charlieplexed LED matrix for the Arduino, available in the Maker Shed. You can use it to display anything in a 9×14 grid. Scroll text, play games, display images, or anything else you want to do.
