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Flexible furniture

Part card trick, part slinky, the Flexible Love chair seems like it could be more than a novelty. The end pieces look shopbottable, but the bellows seems like it would take a lot of patience to cut, fold and glue.

FlexibleLove™ furniture incorporates an 'accordion-like, honeycomb' structure to create durable furniture pieces produced from widely-available recycled materials. FlexibleLove furniture, such as FlexibleLove Earth 16, are made from recycled paper and recycled wood waste, and are produced using pre-existing manufacturing processes in order to reduce their overall impact on the environment.

The name "Flexible Love" was derived from the concept of a 'flexible love-seat' - seating that could hold from one to as many as sixteen individuals; changing length and shape with a simple pull at each end. A honeycomb structure, used throughout the entire Flexible Love line, produces an accordion-like result that allows each piece to be extended and collapsed with ease.

Posted by Chris Connors | 8:00 AM in Furniture, Paper Crafts | | Discuss (2)

Universe ring

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Cool maze-box on Thingiverse

Thingiverse user wizard23 designed this cool puzzle box (which he calls the "A-Mazing Box") using a custom Python script and Clifford Wolf's freeware OpenSCAD program, then printed it on a MakerBot. His script lets you import your own maze as a PNG so you can design one with a unique solution. Read More

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Cloak of Invisibility, here we come?

From PhysOrg.com: A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light. This breakthrough is of major importance in... Read More

Use digital I/O pins to measure analog voltage

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What ya get?

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Servo mount for Ping)))

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There's an app for that... Phone turns on a Maytag Oven, oops...

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Weekend Project: LED Ice Cubes

Make a glass of LED ice cubes for conversation or decoration. To download The LED Ice Cubes video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.... Read More

Merry Christmas from all your pals at Maker Media!

Who's excited about Santa? It won't be long now before some imposing stranger with gin blossoms, in a garish flaming-red suit, who's been spying on your children all year, sneaks into your house to wolf down milk and cookies... Read More

Do-it-yourself Bed-bug Detector

Do-it-yourself Bed-bug Detector @ Science News... After trying some 50 arrangements of household objects, researchers have come up with a new low-cost, homemade bed-bug detector. To lure the bugs out of hiding, Wan-Tien Tsai of Rutgers University in New... Read More

Laser instrument

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