Don your favorite bathrobe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader.
This week we saw everything from a periodic table of LEGO and balloon chairs that you can actually sit on, to a hands-free way of taking DSLR shots and more…
So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week.
Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too.
This Periodic Table of LEGO Brick Colors is the Chart You Never Knew You Needed Until Now
“With tens of billions of LEGO bricks made each year, it’s no surprise that there are nearly 4,200 different elements in the LEGO range with a variety of different colors and decorations – a number that brings the total number of possible LEGO brick combinations to nearly 10,000…”
You Can Actually Sit on Seungjin Yang’s ‘Blowing Series’ Balloon Chairs
“Although blow molding is a highly developed molding technology that’s been around since the late 1800’s to create hollow parts (such as plastic bottles) with uniform wall thicknesses, few have ever thought to use an actual blown-up animal balloon as a final material choice…”
Fender Finds New Ways to Shred Paper with the Cardboard Stratocaster
“Although they started out in 2004 as an “artistic company anchored in snowboarding”, Signal Snowboards has since become synonymous with a less-traditional medium for building boards and other structures – cardboard…”
Take Better Shots of Hands-On Projects Using Foot Pedals [How-to]
“I love new types of Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs). When it comes to demonstrating design projects, you typically need both hands – unless you’re a badass who can fold origami cranes with one hand like it’s nothing. Now imagine trying to capture images while simultaneously working on a dual-wielding project. Yeah, it’s not that easy, and that’s under the assumption that the shot will not already be distorted or blurry…”
Behind the Design: The Making of a Nordic Bow and Arrow
“12 centuries on and the Vikings are still a subject that looms large in our imaginations. Blonde, powerfully built men with horned helmets, nostrils flaring with aggression, weapon wielding to descend and capture. On a not-so-well-known note researchers assert that the weapon a Viking brought to his grave was a measure of his social standing…”
Frank Howarth Shows Us How to Build a CNC Machine from Scratch
“As the host of one of the most satisfying woodworking channels on YouTube, Frank Howarth of Frank Makes tends to seamlessly balance interesting wood projects with clever videography skills regardless of the challenges from either thrown at him…”
