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How to Collect and Display Insects

Andrew Salomone — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:19:04 +0000

In the midst of the current 17-year cicada emergence here on the East Coast, the good folks over at Radiolab have posted an interview with entomologist Dr. Louis Sorkin, in which he describes how to collect and display insect specimens in shadowboxes (or cigar boxes if you want that DIY aesthetic).

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How-To: Collect and Display Insects

Andrew Salomone — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:07 +0000

In the midst of the current 17-year cicada emergence here on the East coast, the good folks over at Radiolab have posted an interview with Dr. Louis Sorkin, in which he describes how to collect and display insects in shadowboxes (or cigar boxes if you want that DIY aesthetic).

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How-To: Tiered Cake Pan Display Tower

Haley Pierson-Cox — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:00:17 +0000

Make your own beautiful tiered cake pan display tower with Amy at A Nest for All Seasons!

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DIY Log Dome Display

Meg Allan Cole — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:00:24 +0000

Kate's log dome is really lovely over on Design Sponge. I love a home decor project like this because you can change it up and personalize it any way you want to make it work for your aesthetic taste. Isn't that what home decor is all about?

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How-To: String Art Card Display

Arwen O'Reilly Griffith — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:00:14 +0000

I never quite know what to do with all the holiday cards I get; they fill up the fridge pretty fast, and fall down in a pile if I put them propped up on the table. I love this Christmas tree string art card display–it’s a fun decoration as well […]

How-To: Colorful Triangle Shelves

Arwen O'Reilly Griffith — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:18:35 +0000

As a devoted flea market hunter, I am always on the lookout for creative ways to display my finds. I like the bright pop of color in these DIY triangle shelves. They’d be perfect to display a tiny collection (or heck, just as decoration in and of themselves!). Filed under: […]

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Super Fast Electromagnetic Flip Dot Display

Matt Richardson — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:30:19 +0000

As a promotion for TNT, BREAKFAST installed this incredibly large and fast flip dot display in Manhattan’s Herald Square. The 23 foot long display is 12 feet high and made up of 44,000 dots.

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How-To: Minifig Scale OLED Display

Sean Michael Ragan — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:23:09 +0000

Very cool idea from Dan over at adafruit: Use an OLED display module to create working scale train schedules, plane schedules, TVs, or other scale flat-panel displays for your Lego models

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Visible Physible Family Trees

Sean Michael Ragan — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:00:06 +0000

Last September, I wrote about the Thingiverse “Cube Gears” phenomenon, briefly tracing the origin of user emmett’s Screwless Cube Gears through its evolution from Haruki Nakamura’s papercraft geared heart sculpture via user GregFrost’s printable Broken Heart thing. At the time, I really wanted to exhaust the graph of the cube gears / heart gears phenomenon, but didn’t have the available free time. Well, I finally got around to doing it.

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Super Mario Night Kite

John Baichtal — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:00:20 +0000

Mark “352K” Rober wrote in with his latest project: an assembly of balloons with throwies inside, creating pixels in the sky. And nice call on tethering it so you can get those toxic coin cells back! Filed under: Electronics

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