By Arwen O’Reilly Minneapolis is a crafty town! As if the No Coast Craft-o-rama weren’t proof enough, I got a whirlwind tour from Trish Hoskins, of Crafty Planet, of some of the best craft Minneapolis has to offer. Crafty Planet is every crafter’s dream come true. Walls of luscious fabric, from kitschy prints to Amy […]
R. Stern writes – “Sequence Control is an (open source) Arduino interface-controlled animation written in Processing. It gives the user the option to pause, frame forward, frame backward, and adjust the speed of the animation.” – Link & photos. Related: Arduino projects @ MAKE – Link.
Fabienne Serriere, Engadget how-to writer and Netscape anchor, got herself a great vintage Singer 222K sewing machine. Fabienne says, “If you learned on a rock solid sewing machine and ever since have lamented the plastic creations that pass for sewing machines nowadays, you will understand why I needed this gadget so badly. A Singer Featherweight, […]
Mmmmm! Gingerbread and Star Wars for the holidays!! Check out this gingerbread tie fighter that was made by flickr member firqoret. Don’t miss all the great process photos including the intricate drawing diagrams to plan all the gingerbread shapes to bake. Thanks Bonnie! Link.
The most Mad-max kitchen timer I’ve seen today… “It’s a kitchen timer. Use it to time spaghetti, or maybe an egg. It uses two PICs, one acts as a keyboard encoder, the other drives the display and supports the timer functions. You key in the desired time and press ‘#’. It’s accurate to 1/100th of […]
As a follow up to our last post on “Real Men Knit”, O’Reilly Editor Brian Sawyer got himself a review copy of the DVD and writes up his thoughts on the documentary. Brian says, “Here’s a tip, ladies: packaging the needles and yarn with this DVD would make a great gift for the man in […]
Nick made an alien-looking sculpture from a ton of rolled up newspapers… [via] – Link. Related: Art @ MAKE – Link. Laptop bag made from newspapers – Link.
