Dragon skeleton sculpture made from real bones
Virgil England installed and photographed this life-size dragon skeleton in Chugach National Forest in Alaska in 1990. In his own words:
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Bandsaw beautification
The first time I saw a circuit board where the board designer had broken through the boundaries of a grid pattern and made traces that curved playfully and made decorative shapes, it was a revelation. You can make a PCB any damn shape you please! (So long as it takes into account the component shapes, […]
Audiocloud
This tangle of corrugated plastic tubes is the Audiocloud, a collaboration between Piotr Adamski and mode:lina. It’s got some high-falutin’ conceptual roots, but I gotta admit I’m just charmed by the series of tubes. [via Core77]
Tentacle-box: A mobile music station with beat-synched lights
The music is from a car stereo, and the lights are multiplexed by an Arduino. Check out the link for more information, and the Arduino source code.
Chris Ware’s Halloween cover commentary
Dale posted a tweet about the Chris Ware cover of the latest New Yorker magazine. I think the cover is a brilliant commentary on our mobile-connected, interrupt-driven, Twitter and FB-obsessed lives, and maybe on some of the “phoned-in” parenting that goes on. It instantly reminded me of an incident at Maker Faire Bay Are three […]
Interactive fonts, for when ‘bold’ isn’t enough
Can’t decide on a typeface for your next project? Why not choose them all, with Michael Flückiger and Nicolas Kunz’s Laika, the dynamic font generator.
Chair made of drinking straws
Scott Jarvie made this Clutch Chair using more than 10,000 drinking straws. This one is apparently an art piece rather than an actual chair, but it seems like it should be possible to make a functional one using this method as well.
