GreenCards – Cards that grow
Sid sent in these business cards that grow, design your image, send it in, drop them in water and watch the alfalfa grow – Link & photos.
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Sydney Harbour Bridge made of matchsticks
Spluch writes – This is a scale model (approximately 1:900) of the Sydney Harbor Bridge assembled by Brian Sheehy from Sydney, Australia in 1984-1985. 9,734 matchsticks and split paddlepop sticks were used in its construction which took a period of 6 months and 420 hours to complete. Carpenters and P.V.A wood glue were used in […]
Magnetic clothes hangers
Dnaiel writes – Clothes hangers and clothing spaces have largely remained in the sameformat over the years. Hangers usually consist of a styled wooden, plastic or metal frame upon which clothing rests, with a hook component at the top. Similarly, contemporary wardrobes often use a contained space with horizontal bar(s) upon which to place the […]
A Boybot and his Dogbot
Dug North writes – I have made some additions and put the finishing touches on an automaton I started a few years ago: A Boybot and His Dogbot. Stylistically, this piece is different than my other automata in that I have used geometric shapes for the figures and have decided to leave the wood unfinished. […]
Oscilloscope art
Ivanjs writes – If you’ve got a dual channel oscilloscope handy (got mine for $49 on ebay), you can create some amazing imagery using the X-Y mode setting and/or ADD setting). All you have to do is feed a separate signal (like a sine wave and a triangle wave for example) into each of the […]
The Obelisk chairs
These Obelisk chairs from Janus et Cie are amazing, but maybe not $9k amazing, looks like a fun (re)make could happen here – [via] Link.
Bangalore Monkey: Drum Machine
Jrambow writes – I thought this was really cool. It’s a drum and bell machine I saw at Bangalore’s Bull Temple. You can see the motor to the left and how it’s connected to the drumsticks. It wasn’t going, unfortunately — would be fun to see it at work, and to see how you adjust […]
