Core77 is having a fairly brilliant promotional contest that prompts readers to make, photograph, and submit a Play-Doh model of their favorite footwear. There’s still a week left to enter, and, in the meantime, a large and amusing gallery of submissions to date.
And we’re back with our fourteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Todd Harrison shared an, er, alternative to Kip Kay’s Lily Pad Pool Warmers Weekend Project video: My DIY redneck pool heater would be a lot less fuss. There was […]
Make a silver Firefox pendant using some basic jewelry making tools and turn your favorite web browser into a fashion statement in this week’s CRAFT Video. To get the foxy template, check out Tobi Leingruber’s Foxbling on Thingiverse. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube.
I actually had to send some snail-mail recently and remembered the clever Google map envelope trick from Beste Miray Dogan that made the rounds awhile back. Turns out, a friendly bloke named Stephen has created a handy generator website that lets you input your return address and then automagically creates a printable cut-and-fold pattern.
Adam Richard Cooper built this hand-cranked model of a classic mechanical governor–which, as MachinistBlog succinctly put it “regulates the speed of steam engines by acting as a negative feedback system”–and made the dimensional drawings and build notes freely available for download at his site. I like the idea of a hand-cranked governor model, particularly, because it provides tactile feedback of the device’s purpose: You crank it faster, it gets harder to crank.
For a limited time, Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is offering a free download of an eighteen page booklet by famed automata-maker Paul Spooner. This is a great resource for the mechanically-curious and must have for automata-makers.
And we’re back with our thirteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Over on Facebook, many people were pining for a kit version of the Elegant POV clock. Gregory Wild-Smith summed it up well: I want… nay NEED a kit for […]
