Here's how Mark Wilson arranged the pieces on perfboard:
Pawn: Resistors
Rook: Ferrite Chokes
Knight: Metallised Polyester Capacitors
Bishop: LEDs
King & Queen: Electrolytic Capacitors
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Duncan Shirah makes amazing sculptures, usually out of wood and metal. This 1:1 scale Portal gun is perfect for steampunk adventures.
Be sure to check out Shirah's website, where there's also a heroic Adventure Time bronze sculpture.
Waka waka waka. Pauline Acalin sculpted this Pac-Man shaped guacamole pile. What does he eat as power pellets?
Wound Man, as he is known among the archivists at the Wellcome Library, has had a hard life. His superpower is apparently getting wounded in many, many different ways. But this medieval manuscript illustration of him was useful for training doctors. Just don't touch the sides of his wounds with your tweezers.
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The fashion company Coach recently released a line of men's leather products, including wallets made from old baseball gloves. It will release only 200 of these wallets, each of which will be assembled from about one and a half gloves.
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Oh, good! The UK bakery Love Is Cake made these delicious cupcakes and cake just in time for elevensies!
The cupcakes feature the Eye of Sauron, the One Ring, the White Tree of Gondor, Legolas’ Bow and Arrow, Lorien Leaves, and the Sword of Aragorn.
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There are only 21 Lamborghini Reventóns in the world and each costs about $1.6 million. That was beyond the price range of Wang Jian of Jiangsu province, China. So he took an old Nissan van, a Volkswagen sedan and sheet metal and built a slightly low-end replica.
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Yup. I got Elmo back in '05 on the second day of Muppet season. A single .30-30 round from about 80 yards.
Well, no. I can't claim credit. The wife of redditor Wizzer2801 has been making macabre crafts with classic cartoon creations, including a Kermit dissection kit and an Abominable Snow Man rug.
A thoughtful young lady acquired these tattoos to remember her late parents:
I got these a couple months ago for my parents who passed away when I was in high school. Its exact copies of their handwriting from birthday cards. I absolutely love them
Link -Thanks, wifey!
This amazing handgun is a masterpiece of Seventeenth Century engineering and metalworking. The Lorenzoni pistol can, hypothetically, fire seven shots before reloading. Watch the video to see how this magnificently machined device cycled.
Given the right noodles and enough time, Sergey Pakhomov can build anything out of pasta:
Sergey made his first pasta car five years ago. "It all started with my work on an advertising campaign for a macaroni making factory. The campaign developed into a hobby," he said. It took the man three years to build his pasta town.
Link -via Oddity Central | Photo: Pravda
Got geeky chickens? This coop, inspired by traditional Hobbit architecture, is the proper home for them:
Collecting eggs is as easy as convincing Hobbits to partake in Second Breakfast, with convenient outdoor access via the external hinged lid of the next box. These latch via hook and eye to provide security against invaders like raccoons--if a group of Oliphaunt war-beasts shows up, however, you may wish to call upon your contacts within the Rohirrim for further assistance.
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P.S. Just curious: what do Hobbits taste like?
It's so simple that even I could make it! Except that, I gather, you have to Instagram it before eating and I don't have the Instagram app.
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The captain has turned off the fasten seatbelts light. You are now free to move about the cabin for the next five seconds. Then we'll begin our descent. Thank you for flying Loginair from Westray to Papa Westray in the Orkney Islands.
What? No, the party took place in Darwin, Austraila. It wasn't a Darwin Award-themed party. Although Alex Bowden, pictured above, did his best to win one:
The drunken antics unfolded during a party at a house on Rossiter St, Rapid Creek.
Mr Bowden, a fitter and turner, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
From his hospital bed last month, he told the NT News the lads were up from Queensland and he wanted to show them a Territory good time.
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