And we’re back with our twenty-fourth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Bob Alexander built a $20 spectrograph, and wrote in to share his results: I went ahead and made one of these (actually two – after the first, I wanted […]
Searching Flickr groups for “Lego” returns over four-thousand hits. Among the interesting oddities I’ve discovered so far is the LEGO Life-Size weapons group, which has 160 items. Shown here is M4 v5 by The Dawg’s Guns. There are also Lego knives, Lego bombs–even a wearable Lego Boba Fett get-up.
Since the Makers Market beta closed, a group of self-described “MM Refugees” has set up an Etsy treasury to promote their “wonderful science, tech and artistic creations.” I’m very pleased to see this; some of my personal favorites are included. They’ve also got a Facebook group. [Thanks, Michelle!]
And we’re back with our twenty-third installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. RedLeg answered Becky’s call for help in finding a way to make discarded crutches into furniture: Found this a while ago, and it seems pretty close to what you’re […]
A month ago, I blogged about Ron Doerfler’s beautiful Age of Graphical Computing calendar for 2010, lamenting the fact that it’d only appeared on my radar at the end of the year. Well, I’ve been keeping an eye peeled, and Ron just released his 2011 calendar. It’s not about graphical computing, but about what is perhaps an equally interesting mathematical curiosity: Techniques for doing fast mental math. And it looks to be just as beautiful.
Shown above is a small sample of Justin Michell’s meticulously-documented dice collection over at Kevin Cook’s DiceCollector.com. Justin’s is one of six collections, besides Kevin’s own, hosted at the site, which makes for fascinating browsing. Most folks’ experience of dice is limited to the simple Platonic-solid dice, but of the first 20 integers, only 1-, 17- and 19-sided dice are not represented in Justin’s collection.
Disclosure: I got wind of Justin’s collection when he contacted me about putting my old design for an alphabet die up on Shapeways, which I did. His print in stainless steel is shown uppermost. I make two bucks for each one they print.
My choice of updates to include in last Thursday’s round-up of controversial posts turned out to be somewhat, ah…well, you know: Starts at “c” and gets to “l” by way of “ontraversia?” In the interest of shameless click-baiting fairness, here’s a few that didn’t make my initial cut, as well as a couple that escaped my attention altogether. And–what the heck–I’ll arbitrarily format it as a Top 10 list.
