Etsy – Buy and sell all things handmade (new site!)
The new Etsy site is up and it’s outstanding, nice work Etsy gang! [via] – Link. Shopping like this is still my fav…
Month: November 2006
Etsy v2!
Check it out, Crafters! Etsy v2 is out. Yay! Link.
Miniature motor made of paper clips
Simple motor you can (still) make from Popular Science 1940 – Link. Related: Make the simplest electric motor – Link. HOW TO – Make a simple electric motor – Link. HOW TO – Simple DC Motor Controller – Link. Mercury driven motor – Link.
Continuous quilt binding by Heather Bailey
Heather Bailey has posted up a great tutorial on how to bind the edge of your quilt with continuous binding. Look at those perfect corners! Link.
HOW TO – Make a servo-based 4-legged walker
The Real Elliot writes – “Build your own (needlessly tech) servomotor-driven 4-leg walker robot! First, a warning: This bot is basically a microcontroller-brain version of the classic BEAM 4-legged walker. The BEAM 4-legger may be easier for you to make if you aren’t already set up for microcontroller programming and just want to build a […]
National WWII Museum – Knit Your Bit Campaign
During WWII, knitting was a nationwide movement of support, as seen in the above poster. Now over 65 years later, the National WWII Museum is starting a new “Knit Your Bit” campaign to honor WWII veterans by knitting them scarves to keep them warm this winter. You can download the free scarf pattern from the […]
HOW TO – Crack a combination lock video
This video shows you how to figure out the combination to a lock, my lock doesn’t seem to work, but the comments on the site and Digg seem to suggest it works… [via] – Link. Related: Instructions and spreadsheet – Link. PHP page (math bits) – Link & more code. Opening via shims – Link. […]
