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Adam Brandejs made a really cool animatronic flesh franken-shoe controlled by a MP3 player – “The shoe is stitched together with multiple pieces of latex rubber cast out of moulds made from my own skin. The shoe’s toe and heel raise and lower as it occasionally vibrates/pulsates, and twitches on the floor as if it […]
I really like these DIY “over” shoes from artist Eelko Moorer. [via] – Link.
Betz White shows you how to use this cool crafty gadget, the Magicord Knitter (looks like now called Embellish-Knit) which lets you crank the handle and knit a long cord in an instant. Betz then felts the cord to embellish her projects like this felt tea cup pin cushion. Link.
Jared writes – I started this project with more of an idea of creating a system that would visualize Cherenkov radiation via webcam utilizing a Gamma radiation source and heavy water in some heavy lead shielding to produce the tell tale bursts of blue light. Perhaps hook it up to the LCD window kit system […]
Here are the photos of the raft out made of Gatorade bottles and duct tape that was later rowed across the Charles River – [via] – Link.
Pixelsumo has a write up and photos of the Royal College of Art show – Link. and photos. Pictured here, Smoke, a doll that reacts based on how much the parents smoke.
Ok Makers, O’Reilly is having a Photoshop cook-off contest, I’m pretty sure one of our MAKE readers could easily win it, you don’t need to buy anything, just photoshop something based on the books (or free PDFs) from the Photoshop Cookbook series – feel free to use the available MAKE photos from Flickr pool (with […]
