If you’re in the San Francisco/Bay Area this Saturday, April 28th don’t miss the fun at Pandora’s Trunk! Visual Vaudeville and Built Burlesque is the upcoming show celebrating Pandora’s Trunk’s 1 year anniversary! The event will feature a fashion sample sale, including local firecrackers Miranda Caroligne, Bad Unkl Sista, Medium Reality & the inimitable Shannon […]
Roombas are painting @ Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J – April 21 – May 26, 2007 Dedicated to James Murray Spangler*, an amateur inventor/department store janitor whose chronic lung problems may have inspired him to design the modern portable vacuum cleaner, the exhibit was in turn inspired by the work of Columbian-born Maria Adelaida Lopez. Lopez’s […]
Karrie of Girl on the Rocks has a pattern on how to make this cute daisy pin which you can crochet over a button pin. Link.
Adrian built a RepRap (open source 3D printer) and filmed a time lapse video of the construction, he writes – At the end of last week I assembled our first RepRap Version 1.0 “Darwin” from scratch and shot a time-lapse video of the entire thing at one frame every three seconds. It took me four […]
Check out the beautiful embroidery by Amiee Ray in our CRAFT Flickr pool. I love this embroidered fantasy scene of Jacques Cousteau riding a big fish. She has a whole set dedicated to her illustrated embroidery in her Flickr photos. Check out her site dreamfollow, her etsy store, and her blog too. Link.
Rotifers are strange little animals that live in pond water. A type of planknton, they munch on algae, clone themselves, and only give birth to females unless they’re stressed. Rotifers make great pets, but you need a powerful microscope to look at them. At the upcoming Maker Faire, Tom Zimmerman will show how to hack […]
Lisa at U-Handblog has a great sewing tutorial on how to make a reusable grocery bag that folds up into it’s on handy carrying case. Link.
