Evan Roth wants a Graffiti Markup Language tag recorder badly enough to pay 1200 euros for one.

GML Field Recorder Challenge
An easily reproducible DIY device that can unobtrusively record graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer's normal practice in the city.

Project Description and Design Requirements: The GML Field Recorder Challenge is a DIY hardware and software solution for unobtrusively recording graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer's normal practice in the city. The winning project will be an easy to follow instruction set that can be reproduced by graffiti writers and amateur technologists. The goal is to create a device that will document a night of graffiti bombing into an easily retrievable series of Graffiti Markup Language (.gml) files while not interfering with the normal process of writing graffiti. The solution should be easy to produce, lightweight, cheap, secure, and require little to no setup and calibration.

It's a LEGO world, we just live in it. 'Miracle on the Hudson' to be featured...

Several large exhibits built with Lego blocks will be on display Sept. 11 and Sept. 12 at the Clermont County Fairgrounds. Ken Osbon of Goshen Township, one of the organizers of the event, will have one scene depicting the Miracle on the Hudson airliner crash in New York City. Another scene will be based on the "Deadliest Catch" television show.

Bill Lynch, who is promoting the event with Osbon, said he will display a farm scene with barns, tractors, farm houses, bridges and a train. A Columbus-based club, the Central Ohio Lego Train Club, will feature a city with a train running through it, Osbon said.
"They have done quite a few shows in Columbus," he said.

A recently-formed Tristate group, the Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana Lego Users Group, will have a display based on a pirate scene. Osbon said the show, BrickExpo 2010, will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the 4-H Hall at the fairgrounds in Stonelick Township.

This is a blast from the past, an old school "Classic Castle" fortress. It looks like someone made this in 1975, but it still rocks! I love how the creator has as story to tell about each room. Follow the link above and click on "Start the Tour" to learn more about Hoernersburg.

This gregor calendar by Patrick Frey seems to be the spiritual opposite of the knitting clock that we covered previously. Instead of creating a garment to mark the passage of time, this one works by unraveling a tapestry that the dates are printed on.

Perhaps both ideas could be combined, to create a calender that perpetually renews itself? [via dude craft]

Pete McKenna and Steve McGrath, with help from others, have built a multi-tool CNC at the Hack Factory in Minneapolis. It began as a CNC inspection machine that someone donated to the hackerspace. When I was at the HF on Wednesday the guys had it set up to draw with a Sharpie, and they also tested out a rotary tool as well. After I left, they attached Jon Barclay's blue laser and did some etching with that. The results aren't as slick as we'd like but the guys have made great progress. In the Twin Cities area? Come by during one of our open houses, held weekly on Wednesdays at 7pm.