Sarah London’s Wool Eater Blanket
This Wool Eater blanket looks so very complicated, but Sarah London’s instructions make it seem easy. The colors are quite inspiring, and the texture is to die for!
Continue ReadingThis Wool Eater blanket looks so very complicated, but Sarah London’s instructions make it seem easy. The colors are quite inspiring, and the texture is to die for!
Continue ReadingLast night PT and I got to check out the Math Midway (soon to become the Math Museum), including the square trike PT already posted. Check out their website and mine and PT’s photos on Flickr. That other lovely lass in the pictures is Alicia Gibb from Bug Labs. The Math Midway is in NYC […]
Continue ReadingI love the clever way Merrilee of mer mag created these charming paper Jack-O-Lanterns. She’s cut them out paper snowflake-style to create symmetrical, fun faces! See her blog for all the steps.
Continue ReadingFor an 80s-themed Halloween party, I wanted a costume that was unique, incorporated technology, and would be fun for fellow partygoers. I’d been toying with the idea of making a mini arcade machine for my game room, so I decided to come up with one that I could also wear as my costume. What follows is a guide to making your own wearable Pac-Man that guarantees you’ll be the life of the costume party. It’s fun to build and to wear. And I’ve since converted it to a bar-top arcade machine, so this costume can play long after the Halloween parties are over.
Continue ReadingBuild an experimental echo pedal using the pt2399 echo IC.
Continue ReadingMAKE subscriber Brian writes in to point out MemAxe, a Simon-like game made with an 8-pin PicAxe microcontroller.
Continue ReadingYouTuber utubewarrenj is part of a community of cosplayers that are using a pretty amazing low-tech process to go from digital models to relatively accurate, durable real-world objects. Basically, they print out, fold up, and tape together elaborate paper models (for an idea of how much work this is, check out this video by SeamusRocks99), then fiberglass over and/or cast liquid polymer resin into them to produce durable full-size artifacts, which is what he’s showing here.
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