Interesting idea on how one could create a DIY, take anywhere drive in movie – In this digital day and age there are a lot of ways to enjoy movies. Computers, DVD players, portable video players and media centre computers are just some of the means through which your movie experience might come together, and consumer grade video projectors are getting better, cheaper and more portable by the day… Link.
Ron writes “A nice method for making your own longboard skateboards, and sliding gloves, etc. Very detailed instructions.” He’s right, I went through the pages and there are hundreds of pages on every type of build, from basic to building a press. Link.
Ben Heck, super duper console Maker made a Micro NES – a full NES for the palm of your hand, he writes “Sometimes my creations have elaborate origins, like “I’ve been working on the idea for 15 years” or it came to me one day in the bathroom. (Bathrooms and cars being places where I have most of my best “idea bursts”) But I’m sorry to say the NES Micro had no such “stroke of inspiration” behind it. Rather I just had an extra NOAC (NES-on-a-chip) Asian joystick game laying around and figured I may as well do something cool with it instead of letting it collect dust.” Thanks Unigamer! Link.
Embroidery is now one of the coolest crafts around thanks to Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching. Our friend Olivia, just started her very first embroidery project with Sublime Stitching’s easy to use iron-on pattern, Atomique. The result? A cute embroidered robot for a baby quilt. Hmm…seems to be a robot + crafting trend a brewin’!. We love the color combinations and textures she produced through embroidery and how well it complements the circle patterned fabric. Great job Olivia! Link
All knitters know how painstaking a task winding yarn is on your poor wrists. There’s also a lot dexterity you need to keep the yarn from tangling into a big mess. (This unfortunate mess has happened to me many times.) Craftster.org’s multitude of project forums saves the day with a DIY Lego Yarn Winder. Powered by two motors and an RCX unit, this automatic yarn winder is just the excuse we need to go out and buy a new box of Legos. Thanks Leah! Link
Excellent tale from the “Make” – If the field wasn’t so remote, Waldo County residents would have been treated to an unusual sight in September: Blueberry rakers merrily pedaling old bicycles that powered even-older machines used to clean the fruit. Like many good ideas, Shana Hanson’s bicycle-powered blueberry winnowers had their roots in calamity… Hanson borrowed two bicycles that were already mounted on homemade wooden frames. She removed the tires from the back wheels, and covered the inside of the rims with duct tape. Then she attached drive belts that linked the wheels to pulleys on the winnowers. It was an instant success. Link.
