This is a great demo of block printing in India. (not my voice on the video) It’s amazing how accurately the printer can line up the successive prints by hand. The blocks themselves are gorgeous as objects; I have some that I’ve used in mold-making for casting glass.
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
Beijing artist Liu Bolin’s camouflage series is presented in the medium of photography, but his painting skills play the starring role. - More examples of his marvelous precision @ work - ‘camoflague’ by liu bolin
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
I found this amazing marble machine on YouTube - the details are fantastic! The video is a little fuzzy, but there are some good close-ups of the workings.
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
Hot glue guns & LEDs - two great tastes tools that go great together -
What would I do without LEDs and hot glue? They are integral components to nine tenths of my projects. Well, while I was working on my first instructable I noticed that the LEDs I’d hot glued onto the wires kind of made the translucent glue glow a bit. I thought to myself, “What would happen if I put the glue on the focus end?” And so, this instructable was born.
Good idea - it’s always awesome to discover new uses for common items. Find a a good deal on bulk glue-sticks and you’ve got an illuminated art installation. - Hot Glue LED Diffusion
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Ping pong ball LED diffuser
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
This dinner set is made from a mold much in the same way model car parts are. It has all the utensils and a plate for a fancy meal, and has decorative elements not usually found in plastic cutlery. Clearly product designer Demelza Hill has some fancy picnics. Via Cool Hunting.
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Original post by Becky Stern
bottom photo by Matthew Andrews / top bbc.co.uk
The 50-foot mechanical creature was spotted hanging on the side of an office building earlier today in Liverpool, England. It will soon take to the streets as part of La Machine’s public theatre event which unfolds over the next five days.
- Huge Spider is latest arts event
[Thanks, BruceR!]
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Little girl giant plays in the park
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool
Greenwithevil brought his flatbed scanner turned-camera to Burning Man and captured some intriguing images - Scanner Camera on Flickr
From the pages of MAKE:
MAKE:14 p.78 - Scanner Camera
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
The Trimphone is a modified telephone that includes a web cam in the earpiece and an Arduino in the base. By dialing different numbers the user can select different video loops that are mixed with the live feed from the web cam. [Thanks Lukas]
The rotary dialer circuit and Arduino code are pretty simple. Dialer works on principle of interrupting current: dial 7 and current is interrupted 7 times - this is counted in Arduino and the number is sent via serial to whatever application listens. Webcam is connected via USB and microphone through standart mic jack.
Read more about Trimphone by Lukas Vojir
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Arduino Diecimila
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Original post by Marc de Vinck
Ted crafted a fitting set of stairs for his skateboard deck building school -
This is a set of steps I made for our skateboard school. The aluminium beam is a solid billet of aluminium and the decks were custom made with concave only on one edge. You should see the look on our students faces when they make the treck to the basement.
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
Paperforest points us to this excellent article about pop-up book design in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) newsletter. The article, by artist and paper engineer Ray Marshall and artist Wilson Swain, is about their book, The Castaway Pirates - I’ve seen this book, it’s complicated and awesome. The article starts on page 10 of the newsletter.
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
Daniel Deutsch built this crazy-accurate replica of Luke Skywalker’s beat-up XP-34 landspeeder -
We built this fiberglass replica landspeeder from the ground up on a custom aluminum chassis. The electric drive system is capable of a top speed around 25 mph. The speeder is the same size as the original, and can travel several miles on a single battery charge.
Though you may not kick up much dust @ 25mph, you could still pull up to a drive-thru (or imperial checkpoint) with incomparable style.
Click on for build photos and vehicular video action - Full Size Drivable Landspeeder and R2D2
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Homemade Star Wars Landspeeder you can drive
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
Inspired by previous styrobotic art, Cool Tools blogger Kevin Kelly and his son built this fine bot from repurposed packing foam -
I had five years’ worth of foam accumulated. I had some space in my studio to assemble it. I got my foam cutters handy. So we began designing. The bot had to fit in one story. I also wanted it to disassemble easily so I could move it. I decided to make it in five parts: a torso and four limbs. I would cut the foam when I needed to, but did not want to spend much time sculpting it. I discovered the fastest way to glue the pieces was using silicon seal.
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My son and I had a lot of fun making it. Pick up a piece and glue. Cut and glue. Styrofoam is pretty light, so the entire robot can’t weigh more than 20 pounds. The two legs of the robot are free standing. The torso sits by gravity up the two legs. The two arms hang on the torso via a small styro shelf on the arms. I can move the whole body in pieces in a few minutes.
Nice - camoflouged for covert arctic missions! The Styrobot
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22ft tall Robot made from styrofoam packing material
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
”Hyperlink” is series of large needlepoint canvas and yarn sculptures of the typical hand icon that your cursor changes into when you hover over a link on any web page. The set consists of 4 of the large hands by the artist Ben Fino-Radin who is known for his remakes of technological objects and icons made out of spun yarn.
Hyperlink - Plastic needlepoint canvass and yarn, 2006
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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Sculptor Alan Bennett created this compounded Klein bottle for the Science Museum in London -
This is one of a series of glass Klein bottles made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, United Kingdom for the Science Museum, London. It consists of three Klein bottles, one inside another. A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot properly be constructed in three dimensions. In the series Alan Bennett made Klein bottles analogous to Mobius strips with odd numbers of twists greater than one.
- Klein bottle, 1995-1996 [via Neatorama]
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
Remember the eraser collection? Well, Bob Truby has a wonderfully organized site for his pencil collection. They’re beautiful. via Meggiecat
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
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