Archive for the ‘Crafts’ Category
Teddy bear skin rug
September 3rd, 2010 | 
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This antique Tabriz has been repurposed into a bear rug by reshaping the edge and using the excess fabric to sculpt a 3D head. I find it enchanting, macabre, and adorable all at once.
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Steampunk Mr. Potato Head!
I knew this was going to happen?
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How-To: Make Organically-Shaped Gears
MAKE subscriber Dug North writes in to share this video tutorial on how to make gears with unusual contours:
Wood clock designer Clayton Boyer has created an excellent short video showing how to make gears with *very* unconventional profiles. Very cool!
The instructions are a bit terse, so you will probably have to do some experimenting to get it to work correctly, however the effect is pretty amusing.
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How-To: Watt-style mechanical governor
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.
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