The Indie Craft Experience has created a new calendar for the crafting community! Designed by Tweet, this 2007 calendar features all your favorite indie craft starlets such as Leah Kramer of Craftster.org pictured above. Other featured crafters are: the ICE Collective, Flying Fish, Made with Love by Hannah, PDX Supercrafty, Crafty Chica, edge of urge, […]
Check out the great photos from the Plush You II Show opening that happened last week at Schmancy and Fancy + Pants. If you are in the Seattle area, you have a few more weeks to catch the show until November 2nd. Link. Schmancy 1932 Second Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 Fancy + Pants 1914 Second […]
Nicrosin from the MAKE pool writes – “Found this weird travel light in a thrift store yesterday for $2. It had an odd looking bulb that was burnt out, plus I wasn’t about to shell out $5 for the missing battery (it uses one of those square lantern ones). So I converted the bulb into […]
What’s better than a big juicy irradiated steak? Nothing is better than a big juicy irradiated steak. To illustrate some of the issues being raised with using radiation to kill bacteria, parasites, and mold Rebecca used an Arduino board to make these plushie steaks glow… code included – Link. Related: Arduino Fever – The tale […]
Matthias Wandel build an incredible pipe organ, check out the story, sound samples and the build photos, he writes – “With my nonexistent music abilities, and my limited budget, I couldn’t justify buying myself a little Casio synthesizer or something like that. The only way I could justify owning a musical instrument was if I […]
CRAFT photo member EricGjerde’s origami is freaky-cool, here’s a “Pleated wormhole” described as “We start to enter more contorted and confusing topological space now departing for confusion and further points unknown. ” – Link.
JR writes – “Your story on trebuchets reminded me that Punkin Chunkin is only a few weeks away. Mid-Atlantic Makers should consider a road trip to this unique sporting/artillery/MAKEing event: The trebuchets, air cannons, and rotary machines are all great fun to watch — it’s like a cross between a tractor pull, a Gallagher show, […]
