Holy smokes. My personal post-Halloween costume timer officially expired yesterday, but I had to make an exception for this work of art from “friend of a friend” of Redditron This_comment_has. So. Awesome. [via Boing Boing] More: Behold Your Doom: Children’s battle mech Real-life mech awakens, emits flame from appendages Star Wars AT-ST (Chicken walker) costume […]
Shawn Thorsson, of Petaluma, CA, has done it again. We wrote about his Predator costume a few weeks back. Now he’s made a whole freaking army, or at least a squad, of Red vs. Blue Master Chief costumes. A three year effort. Insane, indeed. And by insane, we mean awesome! [More pics after the jump] […]
I love this gaming cockpit that stows away in an ottoman, posted to an Australian overclocker’s forum. The builder writes: Wanted to make it fully adjustable for other people to be able to use, therefore the seat, gearstick and steering wheel all push forward and are locked down with wing nuts and pins. The dimensions […]
A FPV (First Person View) vision system installed in an R/C model plane Since we’re all a bunch of overgrown geeky kids here at MAKE, we’re thrilled to announce that November is Maker Hobbies month! We’re not tremendously comfortable with the idea of limiting what constitutes a “maker hobby,” since a maker can be anybody […]
I like this concept design from German product designer Konstantin Slawinski that integrates the pieces of the classic three-piece “wooden knot” puzzle into a knife, a fork, and a spoon to make an interlocking set of cutlery. I don’t think there’s a deliberate nod to Bill Cutler (WOTD: “metagrobologist”) going on here, but I kinda wish there were. He calls it “Join.” [via Core77]
his very clever design by Derek Engelhaupt has me looking around the house for something I can put tank treads on. The sofa, maybe?
It’s actually one of seven designs for homebrew treads collected on this page over at R/C Tank Combat, which looks to be an absolutely fascinating click-trap. [via Hack a Day]
SO. It turns out the 2001 monolith (in)action figure I wrote about last week is one of ThinkGeek’s prank products. You can’t actually buy one. Yet.
It’s a clever trick, really: Call it an “April Fool’s” product, then count the number of clicks on the buy link, and decide based on that info if you really want to manufacture and sell them, or not.
Me? Bitter? ‘Course not.
Anyway, reader Dan Simpson saw that post and commented that
[b]ack in the 70s, I was commissioned to make one of these. I used one inch thick black acrylic plastic, and machined it to a thousandth of an inch accuracy on a vertical mill, then gave it a satin finish. Now, around three decades later, it’s in stores. But I still have my prototype, which is a few thousandths off….
I asked, and Dan was kind enough to provide, this photograph of his prototype. If it looks a bit funny, here, it’s probably because I couldn’t resist the temptation to crop it to 400.0 x 900.0 pixels. Although I am insufficiently evolved to perceive it, Dan assures me that its hyperspatial dimension is equally precise. [Thanks, Dan!]
