Elephantine’s Rachel Ball makes a pineapple upside-down cake, recipe included.

Portuguese toy designer Marco Fernandes reuses parts from computers, televisions, DVD players, stereos, old toys and other old electronics to build unique robot toys, all by improvising with what he has. The R³bots light up and come with a display case created from jars, old lamps, plastic boxes and other assorted parts.

The entire R³bots series is here on Behance where Marco writes, “reuse, recycle and customize instead of mass production.”

via Laughing Squid.

In the archives: art from found beach plastic.

From the BBC’s The Secret Life of Ice, an experiment for the DIY files:

Dr Gabrielle Walker and Dr Andrea Sella investigate the molecular make up of ice crystals. They use supercooled water to create a mass of ice crystals instantly and discover why water expands as it freezes into ice.

Watch more BBC videos in the archives.

“Origami’s really cool because it’s a sharing activity… ” And share you can, because this scientist video comes with an advanced origami how-to for making a Spectacled Bear Hat (pdf). (Or you can start with something a bit easier here!)

jtotheizzoe:

DNews sat down with Bernie Peyton, animal origami artist and biologist, to talk about how his artistic expression intersects with his scientific study…

I’ve featured Bernie’s work in the past, it’s truly stunning stuff … endless folds most beautiful :)

Animals + origami? Yes, please! You can see more of Bernie’s work on his site, and more paper videos in the archives. 

Learn how to arm wave with Hip Hop dancer and choreographer Matt Steffanina. Then make it look smooth with lots of practice!