Posts Tagged ‘crafts’

Giant air cannon

Friday, March 7th, 2008

These guys claim it’s “…the world’s largest and most powerful air vortex cannon.”

DIY mouse-driven Etch-a-Sketch

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

This may be one of those times where the image and concept is more interesting that the final product. I mean, what could you actually do with a mouse-driven Etch-a-Sketch? Project Page via Gizmodo, via Make.

etch-a-mouse

Papercraft K-3PO

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

This papercraft looks like a pretty challenging project. Tip: Photoshop some gold into the white panels before you print it out and you might have yourself a pretty cool looking C-3P0 model.

Model via gizmodo.

k-3p0

Saving the world is hard work

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Master Chief recovers from a hard night on the battlefield.

halo

The Disintegrator rubber band gatling gun

Friday, January 18th, 2008

You have got to see this thing to believe it. It fires 40 rubber bands per second and has a maximum range of 22 feet.

Build your own Bender beer brewer

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Lengthy article on how to build your own Bender beer brewery which includes a rather unfortunate placement of the spigot.

bender brew

Papercraft Halo dropship

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Print, cutout and assemble a pretty nicely detailed Halo dropship. Download via paperkraft.net

dropship

Paper craft gun replicas

Friday, December 21st, 2007

From Die Gestalten Verlag via gizmodo.com

For a new art project, the designer Martin Postler has investigated the history, the aesthetics and the lethal seductiveness of the Kalashnikov. He has freed the AK-47 from its terrible capacity to injure and kill by deconstructing it into a paper model construction set. At the end of the construction process each person can decide if they would like to hang their own AK-47 on the wall, paint it, customize it with stickers or simply burn it. Then ultimately this AK-47 thankfully remains a piece of paper.

paper gun