Lego is most people’s all time favorite toy right? When we saw Adrian in New York’s and Mike in Utah’s hair for lego men, we got inspired!

Take note: Unlike LEGO, sugru isn’t a toy. While it’s still soft and squidgy, sugru is for grownups, not kids, so keep it away from those little guys. Once sugru has had time to cure, it’s safe for everyone.

There are so many awesome things you can do by combining the two, this is just the beginning.

Here’s the first of many:
Add LEGO bricks to your monitor and your stuff to keep them neat and tidy!

Keep an eye on gurus and instructables for lots of lego related how-to’s coming v soon…

The biggest challenge in any creative process is to embrace failure. Lots of you teachers, lecturers and group leaders want to foster a hands-on creative process in your students. You want them working fast, failing fast, and learning even faster. Improving a design or invention with constant real-life testing.

We know that sugru is a great material for prototyping ideas and testing stuff out so we thought we would set up sugru PROJECTS, it’s a simple idea where we give second level schools, colleges and universities (anywhere in the world) free sugru to run great projects.

If you run a course just send us a project brief that uses sugru as a prototyping material and we will send you enough free sugru to run the project with your students.
We’re not quite sure what’s going to happen but we know its going to be exciting.

How to:
• Submit your brief on this handy google form by December 16, 2011.
• We’ll supply sugru to the best proposals we get
• You report back the results of your project, we publish the most interesting processes and inventions on the sugru blog
• You and your students get recognition for being kick-ass designers / inventors

To set the ball rolling, we set ourselves the challenge of inventing a way to roll an egg down the stairs without it breaking !!!

A few of you have sent us images of jazzed up toe caps on their Converse, so we got inspired to try it too!

We bought these shoes in a charity shop for £1.50 !!!! a quick hack later and they look super cute!

sugru properties that make this hack possible:

- bonds to the rubber used in converse
- is waterproof so will be fine in the rain and even a washing machine
- is flexible so will bend with your shoes
- can be mixed to to create custom colours

Use leftovers for other little jobs like making your zippers easier to pull

We’ve made a full step-by-step instructable for this project to show you how to get the best looking results – everyone will wonder where you got that really unusual colourway.

Well, you won’t need to merge with a fly at a molecular-genetic level while attempting a teleportation experiment to achieve this look.

Just a broken tea strainer, a pair of old glasses and some black sugru.

Full step-by-step Instructable here showing you how to make your own!

As far as we know, no-one was harmed in the making of this project. Although Ben and Suki did both become incredibly scary for a brief time, they’re both looking perfectly normal working away at their desks now… hmm maybe a little toooo normal…

I’ve been meaning to post about this very awesome project for a while, and when Oscar emailed to say he was taking part in last weekend’s Astronomers Ball organised by the equally awesome Guerilla Science people, I got excited all over again.

Back last year sometime, Oscar had a simple idea:
“Laying down on the grass and observing the stars at night is one of these simple things that makes you escape from daily reality. Contemplating this natural wonder makes you feel very small and brings up many questions about human kind and the universe. Living in big cities such as London has many advantages, but it is unfortunately difficult to see a clear sky. The city lights, the English weather and the pollution hide the contemplation of this poetic open space. The Big Dipper project is an attempt to recreate what we cannot see anymore. This ongoing work tries to bring back the stars, the constellations, and maybe more…”

The Big Dipper project from Oscar Lhermitte on Vimeo.

I met Oscar first when he won the first micro-grant we awarded from the London Chapter of the Awesome Foundation to help make the project happen. It’s been amazing to see it go from that initial test to the traveling guerilla project it is today. He tried getting helium balloons to suspend super bright LEDs, tried shining lasers (not the best idea), flying kites, and lots of other ways of suspending small bright lights in such a way to achieve the very tricky problem of making static constellation patterns.

This process of testing took around a year, until he came to his final solution – a spider web of catapulted fibre optic cables suspended between 3 points. Sometimes he uses trees, sometimes buildings, sometimes cranes.

Throughout all the technical development, the project also evolved conceptually and in the end as well as recreating constellations Oscar began creating his own, based on old and new myths about London – the Fox, the V2 and my favourite, the Irish Giant and Hunter.

This summer 12 constellations were installed at various locations around London, and people went stargazing by following a google map with info about the myths of the constellations. The project is being installed now at various festivals and events, and I’m sure new constellations will emerge each time.

Follow Oscars projects at his blog, and since there’s a good chance you’re now inspired – find out more about the Awesome Foundation here, the next deadline for London applications is Oct 31st.

Bike lights are all pretty standard; plastic and ugly.
So we set ourselves the challenge to make them beautiful, and stained glass came to mind!

It turned out amazing so we made a step-by-step Instructable so you can easily make your own.

sugru properties that help in this project:
● it bonds very well to glass and metal
● it has very good dampening properties so helps to protect the glass when cycling around
● it’s waterproof
● it’s easy to use

*You don’t need to buy stained glass for this project, we asked the nice people at a local stained glass workshop if we could have some of their off-cuts. We just collected a bunch of glass from their bin for free.

It’s incredibly satisfying to watch a towel fly across the kitchen and snap onto the fridge door.
We couldn’t resist taking them outdoors though!

Did you know that sugru:
● bonds to fabrics
● is flexible when cured
● is waterproof so you never have to remove the magnet as sugru will protect it
● is washing machine proof so will not wash off

We’ve made a full step-by-step instructable to show you how to do this project – it’s super easy and we hope you’ll try it!

This project was inspired by quarterstone’s very awesome magnetised kitchen towel on instructables, we fell in love with his idea but also thought that sugru could make it a little bit better by solving the waterproofing and washing issue.

I spotted this project in a film at the V&A Power of Making exhibition. Based on the simple observation of melting the end of a rope to stop it fraying, Tom Price applies heat through a seat-shaped metal plate to make a comfy all-weather chair from a ball of nylon rope.

Nice idea! I’d love to see some made with old rope…ooh and maybe old fishing nets?

Tom Price, meltdown series (power of making edit) from Victor Hunt on Vimeo.

We have an ever growing collection of odd objects lying around the office that we’ve used at various points for testing sugru’s adhesive properties… what if we tested them all together though?

Music by the awesome Four Tet.

We’re really excited about this new Magazine and website due to launch later this week:

Makeshift from Makeshift on Vimeo.

“Makeshift is a quarterly magazine and multimedia website about creativity in unlikely places, from the favelas of Rio to the alleys of Delhi. These are environments where resources may be scarce, but where ingenuity is used incessantly for survival, enterprise, and a self-expression. Makeshift is about people, the things they make, and the context they make them in.
Much of our coverage will involve remote emerging markets, but we recognize that creativity is hidden everywhere. We want to place you, our readers, in locations you will likely never get to see and reveal street-level ingenuity you might not expect. We want to show the minutiae of how massive areas function, thrive, and simply survive. We want to reveal the complex inner workings below surface understanding.”