Three DIY Snow Vehicle BEASTS

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• Three DIY Snow Vehicle BEASTS
• T-Shirt War (Stop Motion Style)
• Augmented Reality Tattoo: Holographic Skin Art

Three DIY Snow Vehicle BEASTS Posted: 20 Feb 2010 03:00 PM PST As Popsci says, these DIY snow vehicles show winter who's boss. The Snow Chopper Two government employed mechanics in Antarctica built a "snow chopper" with junkyard parts and trash. The engine and track are from a totaled 1981 Ski-Doo Elan, and everything else from "savvy dumpster diving". This beast cost only $10 to build.  "Using pipes salvaged from a recycling bin, Sawicki and Weisser fabricated a frame, with a bent crowbar as the brake and a tent pin as the accelerator. The emergency brake is an old ice ax, and a couple of ice screws welded to the frame serve as foot pegs. It has two ...more > Continue Reading > Related: How to perform simple maintenance on your vehicle How to navigate through snow How to winterize your vehicle How to keep your snow shovel de-iced for easy snow removal How to profile snow density for avalanche safety

T-Shirt War (Stop Motion Style) Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST This clever stop motion film by comedy duo Rhet and Link uses 222 t-shirts and few special effects. To learn more about the process, check out the second video in the gallery below. Says Rhet and Link: "We changed shirts over 100 times each, taking individual pictures of each unique shirt. The designs on the shirts are not photoshopped. They are real shirts for each frame of animation. The video was exported at 30fps, while the T-shirt animation moves at 6fps (with a few exceptions where it moves faster) So, for each shirt, we took 5 pictures, so the animation of us moves at 30fps, but the ...more > Continue Reading > Related: How to cook pancakes in Stop Motion How to export your stop motion films with iKITMovie How to create stop motion animation with these basic tips How to make a simple stop motion animation using a drawing How to make a stop motion film

Augmented Reality Tattoo: Holographic Skin Art Posted: 20 Feb 2010 07:30 AM PST Another innovative use of augmented reality - we've seen transparent walls, t-shirts that play Rock, Paper, Scissors, an iPhone operated video game drone; and now, a tattoo that comes to life. Just tattoo a simple "barcode", point a webcam at it, and a flying animated dragon will appear, hovering. Says Design Boom, "The augmented reality tattoo is a development by the Buenos Aires based company Think An App, which developed the software to recognize the AR barcode on curved surfaces like the human body. While this concept is a novelty now, this unlocks a range of new possibilities for tattoo ...more > Continue Reading > Related: How to get a tattoo in Photoshop How to choose a professional tattoo artist How to give yourself a tattoo How to make a tattoo machine How to self tattoo

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