Homemade Knitting Machine Youtube user correx37 made this homemade knitting machine using old printer parts, two servos and a Picaxe-18x microcontroller. I love the simplicity and re-use of components. That slow, deliberate action could easily lull me in to a deep sleep… and when I woke up, I’d have a freshly-made scarf! See also: Machine-Knitted […]
New York Sketches My poor little comic, it’s on the sidewalk somewhere and I don’t have the heart to draw it again. It was about WWII movies, perhaps in the future, I will return to it. I moved to New York in September and am really enjoying it. I’d like to take the opportunity to […]
December 12, 2010
MIT announces major $100 million expansion plan Shared by jftesser Noooooo Thailand Cafe must never die! Where will I get terrible pad thai with extra peanut sauce?!?! The Tech reports MIT will redevelop 298-334 Mass. Ave. as part of its $100 million expansion that will include the demolition of Thailand Cafe, All Asia, J.N. Philips […]
December 11, 2010
Muscle wire plants come to life when you breathe on them Fraser Ross made these neat muscle wire plant sculptures, that come to life when you breathe on them. [via Dude Craft] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! EXTW […]
December 10, 2010
Slip Your iPhone or iPad Into an Official Pantone Case [Cases] If anyone can be considered an authority on something as essential and accessible as color, it’s Pantone. So be grateful that they’ll share their imprimatur with you with these official cases for iPhones and iPads. The Pantone Universe collection, a collaboration with the Monoco-based […]
December 7, 2010
Arsenic-Based Life The First Interview With the Arsenic Aliens by Edith Zimmerman HP: OMG tell me about yourself! AA: Welllllll, I've been living in Mono Lake forever basically. HP: Wait like literally forever? AA: Hahaha, ummm. HP: [Screaming] AA: Hahahaha, LOLOLOL. HP: You were joking? AA: No, I was for real. We have actually been […]
December 3, 2010
Dolly the Sheep Is Alive, Alive, Alive, Alive! [Clones] Shared by jftesser for tom In 1996, Dolly the sheep made headlines for being the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. She was put down in 2002. But as it turns out, Dolly’s still alive today. A scientist secretly made four copies years ago. Sometime […]
December 2, 2010
An Alien Bottle Opener [Beer] If someone opened my beer with this Klein Bottle opener, I’d probably yelp in fear. It looks so alien and just plain weird that I can’t believe it actually works. Here’s what Bathsheba Sculpture, the company behind the Klein Bottle opener has to say: The problem of beer: That it […]
November 28, 2010
This Door Knob Lets You See What’s in the Room Behind It [Furnishings] You probably don’t spend much time thinking about door knobs, or how they could be improved. Maybe you should! This glass globe lets you catch a glimpse of what’s going on in the room you’re about to enter. Hideyuki Nakayama‘s “A Room […]
November 25, 2010
The Internet Shopping Bracket by Emma Barker The great thing about online shopping is that it’s like regular shopping, but without shame. The not-great thing about online shopping is that the Internet = everything, which is overwhelming. And then also the money thing. But! With the Hairpin's Official Internet Shopping Bracket you can now enjoy […]
November 20, 2010
Fluid Dress is knit from plastic tubing Fluid Dress 2.0! Lovely video of blacklight-reactive fluid being pumped through the 600 ft of plastic tubing comprising this dress by Casual Profanity. We saw an earlier prototype at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | […]
November 18, 2010
How Google Docs Will Break Up With You [Humor] We started out so hot and heavy. The possibilities were endless. We were such a pair, the two of us! Passionate. In love. At least that’s what you led me to believe, you fucking asshole. We started out so hot and heavy. You’d visit me in […]
November 13, 2010
