We love us some papercraft around here. You can imagine our excitement when we found this set of disaster-themed papercraft dioramas. Right now, you can download and build the Hindenburg and the Titanic. The Alamo is in the works and the author promises plenty more to come. I’d like to see a papercraft Ferrari Enzo all smashed to bits. What about you?
Are you a big dick player? Lookin’ fly in your G5 airplane? Step up. You need this chrome Lamborghini from German tuning firm Hamann. At $630,000, it’s a bit expensive but nothing your rich uncle can’t afford. Chrome paint job, performance tuning. Yeah. This Murcielago LP640 will make you a big dick player alright.
We love us some papercraft here at Gearfuse. Whether it’s a delicious steak or a synthesizer, we’ll gladly break out the scissors and scotch tape for any occasion. This papercraft dog looks relatively easy to fold out and put together. It’s only three pieces, so this is a great place to start if you’re new to the craft.
HOPE may be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t keep building things and experimenting. Our good pal Phillip Torrone from MAKE and the famous Ladyada from Adafruit Industries have teamed up to created a video series dubbed “Citizen Engineer.”
In the series (which premiered at HOPE), Torrone and company run through DIY, soldering, hacking, phreaking and more. You’ll learn how to phuck with SIM cards and make payphones work for your benefit. If you love creating new things, you should check the video out.
Oh! And if you check out Freedom Downtime, you’ll see PT and Lazlow make a cameo.
If you live in NJ or NYC and have some free time tonight, be sure to stop by the Etsy/MAKE/Create Digital Music Handmade Music Night event. It starts at 7PM and is being held at Etsy Labs in Brooklyn, NY. It’s easily accessible from the subway and yours truly will be attending and checking out some of the best DIY music around!
Handmade Music Night will include the following goods:
• Chiptune game-music
• Wireless sensor driven sound
• Wii balance board instrumentation
• Custom software for sound-mutation
• Experimental MIDI controllers of oddity
If you have a DIY instrument, be sure to bring it along with you. I’ll be digging through my old boxes and possibly dragging my beat up M-Audio Oxygen8 around, searching for that perfect mod that’ll let me create the sounds I want to hear.
Here’s the deets. Hope to see you there!
Handmade Music Night
7/8/08 - 7pm
Etsy Labs
325 Gold St., 3rd floor? Brooklyn, NY
Earlier this month, I was sitting on the can reading the latest issue of MAKE magazine. Inside, I read about Laurier Rochon and his deodorant-based docking station. At first, the concept sounded a bit off color but after reviewing his project, dubbed “I Am Clean”, as a whole, I’m proud to report I’m obsessed with it.
Laurier used an Arduino and an XPort along with a combination of PHP, SQL and XML to create a docking station that lets the world know how long he used his stick of deodorant for. You pick up the stick, use it and put it back in the dock. Instantly, the information is sent to his website Iamclean.org, where users use a slick Flash interface to view when and how long Laurier was messing around with the Old Spice. It’s a both an innovative and complex technical project, one that you have to see to believe. Hit the link below for the full goods.
