The Sock Monkey dress is on exhibit now at the Minnesota State Fair but according to Boing Boing today you’ll also soon be able to purchase this crafty dress for yourself at the Hazel and Melvin online shop. [ via ] Link. More: Make a Sock Monkey – Link.
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Bob Triming of Australia modded his wheelchair to run on solar panels. The solar panels turns out provides Bob with dual benefits — the solar panels give him an extra 30 mins of power on sunny days, and also acts as an umbrella on rainy days. [ via ] Link.
Continue ReadingCat Morley of Cut Out + Keep has created her first MasterCraft video on Knitting 101. Here she goes over all the basics you need to start knitting (using the English method) including techniques such as increasing, decreasing, and changing colors of yarn. Link.
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Max says, ” Okay, last time I made a computer controlled party light in 90 seconds but I ran into some problems. The party light was an experiment and I needed something that would be more realistic. Something that has isolation to protect against electrical surges and what not that could cause pre-mature device failure […]
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Flowlab has made a Railz Conversion kit that lets you take your skateboard and make it ski slope ready. All for about 50 bucks. [ via ] Link.
Continue ReadingUsing Swedish Fish, Twizzlers, fruit roll ups, cake, and more, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has the recipes for you to make your own dessert sushi. Link.
Continue ReadingIt’s great to find that there are more explorations happening between the technology and crafts world, in this case open source computing and embroidery. From the site, “The Open Source Embroidery project brings together programming for embroidery and computing. It’s based on the common characteristics of needlework crafts and open source computer programming: gendered obsessive […]
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