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This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days. This week we’re pulling teeth–all of them—to knock out those last minute deadlines. We’ll start with a rare Fever Ray track and work our way through some Justice, The Prodigy, Elvis Presley, The Doors, and others before settling down with some Tony Christie.
It sounds typical. A small startup launches a Kickstarter project that achieves funding in record time. Kytelabs is not only the new startup that has achieved funding in this story, but is distinguished as one of the fastest growing hardware campaigns on Kickstarter. In June, they launched the BLEduino project, bucking the status quo and turning their passion for making people’s lives easier and more enjoyable into an open source hardware company that is starting something of a hardware renaissance and drawing more attention to a small island in the Caribbean.
Shaving your head, eyebrows and facial hair to instantly apply a putty to your face when the time calls for it is an important skill nowadays, especially considering the joy you’ll bring with various candies added to the outer layer. There are a few options, but frankly, decoupage and papier-mâché is just so messy. Silicone is the way to go. Sugru is the magical ‘self setting rubber’ that allows you to mold, shape and sculpt for a variety of applications. You can get a 5-color multi-pack for $18, but if you have a larger head, requiring larger amounts or would like a different color, there’s another option, a DIY Sugru substitute called Ooogoo and it’s likely you have all the ingredients to make it in your cupboards.
Brought to you this week by deep fried circuit boards and an electrocuted cockroach tail, be sure to check out the all new episode of Cool Tools of Doom n’ Stuff! By the way, we love our SolidSmack readers! Have something cool you’ve come across and want to share it on SolidSmack? Don’t hide it in your neck skin! Send it on in to