OK, sorry to meander off-topic, here, but when I saw this my L was actually OL, and I just had to share. This rectangular block of black plastic is the latest brainstorm from the clever marketeers over at ThinkGeek. (“Helps your other action figures evolve.”) [via Gizmodo]
DXF files freely available from Thingiverse user freakinhuge. Been thinking about designing one kinda like this myself, but with a release trigger.
Entertaining video from YouTuber David Alvarez. I have a hard time imagining that he’s not working from a plan of some kind, but just from watching the video, it rather looks like he’s “free-handing” his Heath-Ledger-Joker mosaic. He just stands there, solves each cube to present the right pattern, and sets it in place, apparently without any kind of reference.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this cool set of five hand-painted Matryoshka dolls from user funnypolynomial. The tiny solder blob goes inside the diode goes inside the LED goes inside the resistor goes inside the capacitor.
Bumped into one of my new neighbors at the mailbox last week, and when I mentioned that I work for MAKE, she mentioned that her teenage son builds puzzles. Mechanical puzzles. Complicated ones. Turns out, he doesn’t just build them–he designs original configurations and sells them online. He’s got a following.
Made from cardboard, styrofoam, and aluminum tape. Another eBay listing by the same chappy who brought us that duct tape AT-AT. [via Boing bada Boing]
Chris Schaie just e-mailed me this picture of a recent commission. It’s a custom Nautilus-style submarine door that incorporates Chris’s familiar irising peephole as well as a new multiple bolt mechanism that locks and unlocks by turning the handwheel. Beautiful work, Chris!
