Clampholder for digital cameras
Here’s a simple and easy clamp camera mount you can make – Link.
Month: June 2006
Knit a Nautie
We’re ready to knit ourselves a Nautie. This free pattern up on Knitty states, “For almost 500 million years, nautiloids were the coolest kids around. They ate trilobites, had shells in a variety of fantastical shapes, and ranged from bite-size to 12 feet long. Every scary prehistoric beast should be made into a huggable toy, […]
Fabric Yo-Yos
Doc writes – “This man has done some amazing yo-yo projects in the past, including molding a leather yo-yo, and making yo-yos out of old yo-yo string, but in the linked project he took scraps of fabric and molded them into yo-yos. Damn, I’d love to have an argyle yo-yo.” – Link.
Make Controller kit alpha developers downloads & schematics
The MAKE Controller kit will ship in August, but here are all the schematics! MAKE Controller Kit Spec Sheet.pdf Make Controller Kit User Guide & Alpha Developer Quick Start userguides.zip MAKE Controller Kit Schematics MAKE Application Board Schematics.pdf MAKE Controller Board Schematics.pdf Rowley CrossWorks Project (super latest) makecontrollerkit_alpha_02.zip makecontrollerkit_alpha.zip Make Controller Kit API Reference alpha_api_ref.zip […]
Corset Making
Here’s a decorative corset you can make with things around your house from a plastic bin, duct tape, old t-shirt, and some non-stretchy fabric. Link.
Tension Thing
Judith Fegerl’s haie raising ceramic sphere – “20cm long human hair is embedded into the ceramic sphere. The object is charged by a high voltage generator (about 120-200kVolts) and the embedded hair is standing upwards due to the electromagnetic field. Rhythmical it slowly charges and discharges.” [via] – Link.
Save your paintbrush in the paint can
Instead of washing your brushes, store them in the paint cans like the pros – Link.