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Pocket Laser Engraver

Adam Flaherty — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:00:39 +0000

Check out this ">tiny laser engraver from instructables user Groover. Using easily sourced and salvaged parts including and a couple optical drives and an Arduino, Groover was able to assemble a unit that, though low power, is able to mark wood and cut paper.

Folded Metal Bunny

Becky Stern — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:00:57 +0000

This metal rabbit (actually the Stanford Bunny model) is folded from a single laser-cut steel sheet, designed with Origamizer. The project is a collaboration between Tomohiro Tachi, Kenny Cheung, Erik Demaine, and Martin Demaine at MIT. Check out the time-lapse video of its construction:

Paper Sculptures by Matt Shlian

Becky Stern — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:00:44 +0000

Teacher, paper engineer, and artist Matt Shlian created these stunning sculptures from paper. Reminds me of a single-color Jen Stark! [via Cool Hunting]

Resistor Value Color Computer Wheel, Japanese Version

Sean Michael Ragan — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:00:16 +0000

A commenter on Monday’s post about Rob Ives’ free downloadable resistor color wheel computer pointed us to the Japanese-language site of Ikkei Electronics, which provides this PDF created in 2007, and apparently dated to 1976, showing this cool hand-drawn-and-lettered version of the same idea. [Thanks, ikkei!]

Resistor Value Color Computer Wheel, Japanese Version

Sean Michael Ragan — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:00:16 +0000