I’ve been a huge fan of the space program since I was a little kid. Here I am playing as an astronaut with my spacesuit, headset, and maneuvering backpack: I wanted some space program ornaments for my Christmas tree and couldn’t find what I wanted, so I decided to make my own. A little time …
An Erlenmeyer flask becomes part of a laboratory-inspired lamp.
“It holds your trash… and we think you’re going to love it.” Turning an old Macintosh into a trash bin.
A small clutch that uses an EL panel and laser cut masks to show the phase of the moon.
What’s eight feet across, has 90 teeth, and makes beautiful designs? Not a shark with an art degree, but this giant version of the classic Spirograph drawing toy. Chalk is the medium, and streets and sidewalks are the canvas.
LED candles not radical enough for you? How about some revolutionary chic in the form of an LED molotov cocktail!
The Exploratorium in San Francisco recently released a book called The Art of Tinkering. They describe it as a celebration of a whole new way to learn by thinking with your hands, working with readily available materials, getting your hands dirty, and, yes, sometimes failing and bouncing back from getting stuck. Sounds like exactly what …
Further explorations in archaic wearable computing: an abacus in the style of a classic calculator wristwatch.
A simple and fun Halloween costume honoring the classic video game PONG.
A few tweaks make a multimeter friendlier for a child and his electronics kit.