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Adding a hatchet to the "Pecking Mechanism" to make a 2-piece action model. I will try to post a video clip showing the model in action. Presently, my right hand is too weak to hold up the hatchet...what the hack!
Diagrams for the "Pecking Mechanism" are posted earlier here - www.flickr.com/photos/61236172@N08/14051033369/
The hatchet is from a 2x1 duo-coloured paper-backed foil [15cm x 7.5cm] and is attached to the "Pecking Mechanism" without glue. The lock is not very strong and I will need to improve on it before I can do the video clip. There are no diagrams for folding the hatchet but it is a very simple model similar to the one that comes with the heart, posted as "Ex-Lover" here - www.flickr.com/photos/61236172@N08/6992811394/
Made by Christian Hacker of Nuremberg. A very similar stable appears in a Hacker catalogue from ca. 1900. This has been over-painted, but it was done extremely well and a very long time ago. A child wrote the names of its horses over the stalls and on the floor in from of them sometime in the 1920s or 1930s: Sepp, Fritz, Franz, Josef and Max. The double doors at the side open into a coach house.
The sailor skittles are also old; Spear & Sons, also of Nuremberg, made very similar sets.
Hacking a digital bathroom scale to use as a general-purpose weight sensor or input device.
Explained in more detail at:
Haseo cosplay by CyberBird
Photo is 6 images stitched together (I don't own a wide angle lens so thank you 50mm xD)
We often let nine months old Lucas play with Alpha Baby - it's fun for him to hear the sounds and see the coloured polygons appear when he presses keys on the keyboard. And with the security built in, his parents can relax about Lucas messing up the computer... Except, in this clip, Lucas manages to exit from Alpha Baby by turning the keyboard around, then activates Front Row, followed by a visit to System Preferences where he accidentally turned on speech for the visually impaired. It took a while to reset the computer so it didn't read web pages out loud.
Hacking a digital bathroom scale to use as a general-purpose weight sensor or input device.
Explained in more detail at:
The goal was to create a super wide and cheap APS camera.
Step 1: Take a Canon IXUS FF - file down and glue on a 67-72mm filter step-up ring - paint black to hide all the messy glue (and also to cut down on internal reflections?).
Step 2: Screw on a 0.43x wide angle converter lens that I found for a few pounds on ebay.
Step 3: Realise that you just more than doubled the camera's weight (175g -> 400g!)
Step 4: Shoot and pray it worked out OK.
It came out with a focal length of about 25mm (35mm equivalent) which isn't bad. The bonus is that you get the macro lens thrown in (by unscrewing the wide angle bit).