Project idea: Shelf diorama of Indiana Jones
Dan Swearingen | November 13, 2009
I tripped across this beautiful diorama project posted and built by Maxime Pécourt who lives in Paris, France.
What a fun idea.
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Project inspiration: MUSE video “Uprising”
Dan Swearingen | November 7, 2009
This is a beautifully done video made by filming art miniatures with the band masked in. Love the killer teddy bears. The song is okay too.
Star Trek communicator bluetooth “headset”
Dan Swearingen | November 6, 2009
Wow, are there some serious nerds out there! They make me happy.
Diana Eng over at Make presents an awesome project taking a toy Star Trek original series communicator and making it into a bluetooth headset for your cell phone.
I actually own one of these toy communicators and this would be a great project to encourage building out and validating our electronics projects infrastructure.
Project idea: great stop-action Lego movie
Dan Swearingen | August 24, 2009
It’s also a great tribute to 8-bit video games.
Sorry Steven, I think you’re pwned. Awesome. The comment says “1500 hours of moving legobricks and taking photos of them.”
Project idea: The Tumbler go-kart
Dan Swearingen | August 18, 2009
Project idea: Rubber band machine gun
Dan Swearingen | August 9, 2009
Carissa mentioned that she was thinking of making some sort of rubber band gun next.
I found this great video at YouTube blogged about at Japanator.
Project idea: picture painting
Dan Swearingen | August 6, 2009
Dan Dos Santos is an artist of many modern pulp novel covers. Here is a great time-lapse sequence of him painting a book cover.
More of his work may be seen here (Russian language website).
Project idea: Puddle Duck Racer sailboats
Dan Swearingen | June 24, 2009
Puddle-Duck Racers (also PDRacers or just PDR) are a class of racing sailboat designed to be easy to build and sail.
Because they are required to be less than 8 feet in length and sail powered they do not require registration in California.
Official Site for the class
Puddle Duck Racer at Wikipedia
Free Boat Plans
Project idea: fan-powered skateboard
Dan Swearingen | June 23, 2009
Oh my. This looks dangerous (and fun). A skateboard powered by a 3.7 HP model airplane engine.
Propeller Powered Skateboard – Test Day! from Crazy Builders on Vimeo. Another cool project found at the MAKE blog.
Project idea: back yard “yurt” hideaway
Dan Swearingen | June 19, 2009
I knew someone that had a yurt in their back yard where they would go to be “away” from things — telephones, computers, TV, family, etc.
I thought this was just a little weird. Maybe it’s just that it is so… overt. After all, I know I need some alone time each week or I get pretty cranky.
Anyway, I’ve always loved the idea of little out buildings: tree houses, sheds, gazebos.
I love these high-tech camping cabins by British architect Philip Crewe.
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