It’s Saturday here at the Renegade Craft Fair with perfect sunny weather and lots of cool crafts to check out. Where else can you find the best in indie crafts from silkscreened tees, totes, jewelry, posters, paintings, plushies, and more? Here’s our CRAFT booth with Katie and Goli. Also above is a sample of our […]
Celluloid Signal Combo put together a cool site that uses geolocation to show local video locations and the idea is that you’ll watch the videos on the spots on the map. Cool! We created each mobile video to be watched at a specific location in Portland that relates to it. For example, the Pioneer Courthouse […]
This week’s CRAFT podcast pattern is Fitzpatterns’s Deanne Cropped Pants which are cool looking knickerbockers with rib-trim ends. Pictured here are ones made from Prince of Wales grey and black corduroy. Make yourself some fantastic cropped pants to wear with boots this fall. The featured pattern is size Medium. If you need other sizes, please […]
We need a robot to infiltrate the cockroach base, understand their social patterns and then mimic their behaviour. Now that robots can mimic cockroaches, I’m convinced that they can take over the world. [Via]
Volume, value, and a vw. Could it be true? Could collecting cans in a shopping cart generate a significant income? How many cans could one of those carts hold? And what would those cans be worth at the recycling center? On Saturday morning, we decided to find out. – Link
It’s important to make what you have do what you want it to do. My dell 600m running OSX 10.4.7 wasnt recognizing the intel 2200 wireless card, so I took apart my old linksys WMP54g PCI card to get the broadcom chipset based miniPCI card out of it. The hard part was desoldering one of […]
When I saw the scribbler robot article in Make: 07, I had to make one. At first I thought it would be easy to get some steppers and boss them around with some software. Well that’s what needed to be done, but it wasn’t easy. Luckily I got a lot of the hardware issues out […]
