HOW TO – Knit a Tissue Cover
Karrie at Girl on the Rocks has created a great knit pattern for a tissue cozy. Perfect for cold and flu season. Link.
Month: November 2006
Get CRAFT vol 1 in our Maker Store!
Hi Crafters! Just in time for the holidays! If you can’t seem to find CRAFT on your local newsstands and aren’t sure yet if you want to subscribe, buy CRAFT: Vol 1 from our Maker Store online for only $14.99. Link. Need a great gift idea for the crafty friend or family member in your […]
Troika’s SMS Projector
I like the cool hunting videos. In one of their recent videos, they showed Troika’s SMS projector. I postulate that they have a phone in there and they took the lcd screen off and put it in just the right place so that it would be in the same place as film if it were […]
Blood Scarf
It starts out clear and end up red! Blood Scarf depicts a scarf knit out of clear vinyl tubing. An intravenous device emerging out of the user’s hand fills the scarf with blood. The implied narrative is a paradoxical one in which the device keeps the user warm with their blood while at the same […]
LEGO Mindstorms NXT and open source
In the MAKE open source gift guide we included the LEGO NXT, one of our readers (dwahler) was concerned that LEGO wasn’t actually releasing the firmware as open source as promised, so – I found out the scoop straight from the source (no pun intended). Soren Lund, head of NXT at LEGO Denmark sent me […]
6-pack – Arduino-based controller for live audio/video performances
Here’s an arduino-based controller for live audio/video performances. Cheap to build and amazingly small… “6-pack is an open-ended, highly customisable, and ultra-portable physical controller based on the Arduino board. 6-pack is an Arduino shield consisting of 6 linear potentiometer sliders that can be assigned to different variables in the user’s preferred software. It can be […]
Holiday Project: Make a Snowman Ornament from a Light Bulb
Now there’s no need to throw away your light bulb when they burn out. Why not transform them into a cute snowman ornament for your tree? Thanks Mark D! Link.