Month: October 2006

Free pumpkin patterns

Free pumpkin patterns

Here are a bunch of free pumpkin patterns/stencils from “The Pumpkin Lady” – Thanks Pumpkin Lady! – Link. Related pumpkining…: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on […]

A Closer Look: Halloween Etsy – Stuffy Skeleton

By Arwen O’Reilly Stuffy Skeleton http://www.etsy.com/view_item.php?listing_id=468461 Tara Fortin’s frolicks with fabric continually delight me. I adore her stuffy skeleton (white fleece carefully appliqued on black), and her skeleton-printed fabrics are used in everything from charming totes to surprisingly cute pillows. Her world seems to be populated with wonderful and unusual creatures, too, like her almost […]

The Week in Tools

The Week in Tools

Chuck sent in some gems from “The Week in Tools”… – “This week we checked out some beautiful handmade French rasps that transcend functionality to become art. (Their irregularly cut and spaced teeth cut better, too.) If you have a grinder in your shop, you could probably use a tool rest, which helps you control […]

USB Snooping in linux

USB Snooping in linux

Rad, Quiet Earth has a good how-to on listening in to what’s going on over USB, great for reverse engineering weird USB doo-dads… – “This is intended to be a howto to debug usb transactions under linux, or simply to reverse engineer propietary usb stuff. If you need to reverse engineer a windows only usb […]