Geological Layers Cake
Flickr user Khol made a geological layers cake, inspired by Tim Babb’s “Geology” design on Threadless. It makes me think of the song “Dirt Made My Lunch.” More: Dirt From Every State
Month: January 2011
BurdaStyle Seeks Sewing Star
Our friends at BurdaStyle are on a talent search! It’s Sew Easy, the new television program to be broadcast nationally (in the United States) on Public Television, is looking for a BurdaStyle member to star in a 10 minute television spot instructing a national audience on a BurdaStyle sewing project! We are holding auditions via […]
Caterpillar Beam Bot
Let’s Make Robots user adam “MiddleCreekMerchants” claflin built this Caterpillar BEAM bot, which manages to crawl along the ground and follow light without the need for a microcontroller.
Beco blocks are home-printable blocks that snap together
r3becca of the Syndey hackerspace Robots and Dinosaurs designed these nifty Beco Blocks, which are 3d-printable blocks that you can snap together to make posable toys, hinges, or whatever.
Fabric Flower Bottle Wrap
Wouldn’t this gorgeous fabric flower bottle wrap from Between the Lines make a fabulous host gift added to a bottle of wine? (White wine, anyway, unless you used red cloth instead!) After you’re done drinking it, there’s a beautiful vase just waiting to be filled. More: Button-Up Bud Vase
Monster Krupp bucket excavator eats stray bulldozers
Stumbling upon these photos was a strange moment for me. I’ve been playing Borderlands recently, and it had never occurred to me that the monster excavator from the video game might’ve been based on a real-world machine–a real-world machine which, just by eyeballing it, looks like it might actually be bigger than the video game version. Dark Roasted Blend has a good article with lots of deets on the monster machine.
Skill Set: Soldering
It all starts with soldering. Over the years, we’ve been on something of a mission to teach soldering to all of our readers and we hope we’ve encouraged some of you to take the plunge. If not, now’s the time! It’s really not hard to do. It just takes a little practice and a few […]
