Here’s a messy dissection of a Magic 8-Ball. Really, don’t taste the blue fluid – sheesh, I can’t believe they did that. And I love the idea of modding one. If you were careful, you could repackage it and give it as a gift.
Papercraft Paradise has links to a couple really neat paper models. Konicaminolta has a wonderful fiddler crab model. There are 2 PDFs – one has the parts, the other has instructions. And Kirin has a cute polar bear papercraft with a wobbly head; also has 2 pdfs. (you have to click through a couple times […]
Gunk on Floor (where do people get these names??) put together a great Instructable on making a spy periscope – it’s a classic kid’s project.
Matt Kirkland peels back our illusions about cute robot toys, via Bot Junkie. The machine inside the ghost?
Natalie @ Craft found this fun tutorial on making a Super Foam-erator – a great easy (and messy!) kid’s project for out in the yard.
Our city prohibits street fireworks within the city limits (though you couldn’t tell from the noise on 4th of July night!). We’re going to contribute our own safe, legal noises this year with some Really Obnoxious Noise Makers from this Instructable.
Saturday I went to Artopia in Seattle’s Georgetown area. Lots of cool art everywhere! Divide from Hazard Factory explained his (very loud) jelly bean gun, yet another way to dramatically fling things into the air. Only use this outside! More: Make a Spud Gun Instructions and 3D PDF The SGTC Mega-Launcher Spudgun
