Combine thermal reactive glass with shower tiles and you get a beautiful interactive hygienic experience.
[via Ektopia]
A DIY Photoslave
A device like this is so amazingly handy to have in your photo bag. With a few of these attached to a few flashes salvaged from disposable cameras you can totally light up whatever your photographing. I think I’ll try that and see what sort of effects I can get with this. I’m thinking four plus point lighting on a sub shoe string budget can be achieved with this.
This is a project to make a Slave Trigger for an electronic strobe unit. The Slave Trigger is plugged into the sync cord (PC Type) from a strobe unit and will flash the strobe when it "sees" another flash go off. An older 1970’s Epoxy cased slave trigger (AC Plug Style) was used as a guide in developing this new version. Thanks to input from some of my web friends we now use a photocell from a $1 solar powered calculator as the photo diode. This Project uses a SCR, Capacitor, Resistor, Photo Cell, an Radio Shack Adaptor Plug, and a small plastic box. The parts were found at a local electronic surplus store and the Dollar Store.
Free Fonts From Japan
These are a true jem, you can never have too many fonts.
In the first half of 2005, the Fontleech blog was offering an almost daily portion of links to and reviews of quality free fonts. Among them, a lot of Japanese ones. Since the Summer however, Fontleech hasn’t really been updated anymore, and comment spam is slowly taking over the place. As I’m afraid the site may go offline one day on another, I decided to reproduce its links to Japanese type foundries with free fonts, and added some of my own links too. Here we go, in no particular order:
Camera Coil-Gun
Now this is the sort of project I can sink my teeth into. What do you get when you cross a disposable camera flash with a bit of wire, and steel BB’s? A coil gun! Yeah… That’s the good stuff. Jeff provides plans and links to build your own weapon of choice. Have fun and be safe, if you can do the two at the same time. If not you can go as a pirate for next Halloween.
Lamps built from found junk
These are quite nice. An artist builds one of a kind lamps from old bottle, pipes and bit of antique brass. This should serve as an inspiration to anyone looking for a project.
[via Boing Boing]
