Chicago’s Floyd Davis demonstrates how to make a boombox out of any case, including a Craftsman toolbox. Boombox in a Toolbox

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Pittance sez, “This is my brand new 3D printed Fisher-Price record player record (for the old clockwork music box one, not the new electronic one) playing “Still Alive” from Portal. It’s entirely made using Processing and printed at Shapeways and, now I know how to do it, I really hope I can make more with different tunes - suggestions?” 3D Printed Record - ‘Still Alive’

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Homebrew, 3D printed Fisher-Price record-player disc plays "Still Alive"

MakerBot has announced “MakerBot Playsets,” a series of freely downloadable dollhouses, furnishings and dolls for your 3D printer. Whip up as pieces as needed, on demand, and amaze the wee ones (and compulsive hoarders) in your life. MakerBots own design superstar Michael Skimbal Curry, creator of such Thingiverse megahits as the Turtle Shell Racers and Gothic Cathedral playset, starts the ball rolling by architecting a pair of MakerBot Playset buildings. Introducing two new Thingiverse superstars: Cushwa and PrettyLittleThings are doing a tremendous job furnishing these playsets with their imaginations.1 So without further ado, straight from the soundstage backlot of Annelises Replicator music video, The Right Heart, we present you with the MakerBot Fairytale Castle Playset and the Damsels! The collection has to be seen to be believed. Introducing the MakerBot Playsets: MakerBot Fairytale Castle

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Evan sez, “This is a new construction toy on Kickstarter that uses clever laser-cut clips to assemble regular playing cards into almost any kind of sculpture. We hit our first production goal for the Skallops in the first 12 hours We launched on Kickstarter a week ago, and hit our first production goal in just 12 hours. We just finished deliveries of our previous Kickstarter project, the Trebuchette — which was on Boing Boing last April.” Skallops: Build Big! ( Thanks, Evan! )

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Kickstarter project for Skallops: clips that turn playing cards into building toys

Ikea makes a super-cheap, $9 articulated anglepoise knock-off lamp. The articulated arm is a useful for anything lightweight that needs to have an adjustable X- and Y-axis. Instructables user Brianandrewparker shows how to use a blob of Sugru to mount a webcam to the lamp-base and give yourself a nice, adjustable camera. He notes that this would be useful for mounting other things, too. Tertial Webcam ( via Lifehacker )

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Two (unnamed?) Ocean Engineering students created a “hamster-powered submarine” from “materials derived from common household objects” that connected a hamster wheel in a sealed, air-supplied vessel to a propeller, allowing hamsters to take themselves on aquatic jaunts. They documented the build in some detail, and supplied a video of the maiden voyage. One of the design requirements was “the life and well being of the hamster must not be compromised in any way.” HPS Hamstar: the Hamster Powered Submarine ( via DVICE )

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Mark Nathan Stafford made this “Bones” teapot fashioned in the likeness of DeForest “Dr McCoy” Kelley’s noggin: “Stoneware. Dimensions: 11 inches in height by 9 inches in width by 9 inches in depth. 2011. Pours from left ear.” Doctor Bones Teapot ( via Neatorama )

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Teapot shaped like Dr McCoy’s head

This gorgeous knife is elaborately engraved with scenes replicating Dore’s illustrations to Dante’s Inferno ; I’m not clear on whether this is a knife or a razor (which is technically a knife, I know) — the forum is called “Straight Razor Forum,” the poster calls it a “knife,” and the piece does not resemble straight razors or pocket knives of my experience. I’m sure that when I check this post tomorrow morning (it’s queued up to go live after I go to bed in London) the comments will have settled the question in excruciating detail. The theme was Dante’s Inferno and the images are based on Dore’s illustrations for the book. The toughest part was that I had to alter the images to make them fit the format of the windows. I had to make the altered images still recognizable as the classic Dore illustrations. The “frames” are sculpted and the images are bulino engraved. The scenes on the hidden panels were also bulino engraved. The knife was made by Joe Kious of Kerrville, TX. Default Dante’s Inferno theme engraving ( via Making Light )

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Knife engraved with Dore’s illustrations for Dante’s Inferno

Kevin makes beautiful hand-painted matrioshkas illustrated with whimsical, pop-culture figures. I really like this movie monster set, which features Godzilla, King Kong, Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, Wolfman, Zombie and Mummy. Movie Monsters Russian Dolls (Set of 6) ( Thanks, Kevin ! )

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Karen sez, “Instructables user AussieCFViolin has rigged up a carbon fiber violin. This tutorial is an early entry in Instructables’ ShopBot Challenge , which is accepting all sorts of creative projects for the chance to win an their own ShopBot. This contest has only been running for a week, and has already seen a lot of fantastic entries.” I used the infusion method of carbon fibre making , were you lay all your layers up dry and vacuum bag it , once the vacuum is over 25hg (-12psi) you open the tap to the resin , and the vacuum pulls the resin into the carbon fibre fabric , the laying up of the rib mould took me 5 hours each side to get the fabric to sit in the right position , very fiddly ( pardon the pun) . The gluing jig was made from MDF with 10mm cup heads sticking through , designed to allow side ways positioning of the rib and neck parts , and the holding down clamps for the top and bottom , the centre part of the jig was removed to glue the top on, with the 4 hour set time of the resin ,its important to keep it all firmly heard in position. The cutting and shaping of the f holes is another reason they call them fiddles , carbon fibre is a bugger to cut , found that if you submerge the carbon fibre in water and use a Flexi Drive bit holder on a Dremmel, it keeps every thing cold , and produces no dust , just ware a rain coat A carbon fibre violin i made from scratch ( Thanks, Karen ! )

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HOWTO make a scratch-built carbon-fiber violin