Make Your Own Pattern for In-Seam Pockets
Nayantara on Burda Style has a complete how-to on making your own pattern for sewing in-seam pockets. Link.
Continue ReadingMonth: August 2007
Make a rubik’s cube out of dice – Make: Video Podcast
mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | itunes | blip | youtube This weekend, Action Girl and I show you how to make a Rubik’s Cube out of dice, magnets and epoxy. Interestingly enough, the first Rubik’s cube ever was made with magnets! We found inspiration in gfixler’s and burzvingion’s instructables. The hardest part that we […]
Continue ReadingStar Wars Book Bag
Get ready for the new school year with this tutorial on how to make your own Star Wars book bag from Bonnie at Star Wars Kids. Link.
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Make a rubik’s cube out of dice – Make: PDFcast
You can get most everything you need for this project by checking out gfixler’s and burzvingion’s instructables posts, but in this weeks pdf, you can see how we made our jig, check out our trick for installing the magnets in the corner blocks, and learn Action Girls strategy to speedcubing! PDF Link
Continue ReadingUsing Pixel Fonts for Cross Stitch
When I first got in to cross stitch, I was frustrated with the limited text variations available to me in my mother’s collection. I knew there had to be a way to make consistant, interesting text without making it up myself. Then it dawned on me: cross stitch is just a low-resolution image, so what […]
Continue ReadingKazuhisa Terasaki’s Weird-72 wooden humanoid
Kazuhisa Terasaki is known for making whimsical robots out of wood. Basically, they’re wood, servos, and an MCU. His robot Weird-7 was such a hit in Japan, he produced a kit for it. Now he’s showing off a much more sophisticated bot, Weird-72, that’s still mainly wood and a crapload of servomotors. Kazuhisa’s website has […]
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Solar bike and blog tour of Germany
Steve Paine, a.k.a. Chippy, is a Brit living in Germany. He’s currently on a bike trip, along the Rhein River, which he’s blogging about using a UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) and portable solar tech. Those geeks in the house who are as ancient as I am will remember Steve Roberts, the “high-tech nomad,” who took net-connected, […]
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