Finding just that perfect tea towel is important to crafters especially those of us that love to embroider them and use them in our kitchen. Durability is important — for stitching and to survive multiple washes. Jenny of Sublime Stitching had a Tea Towel Test Tour and now has a new and improved tea towel […]
Nice project from the PopSci folks on instructables — how to take 1.5V to 5v, and of course jam it in an Altoids tin. Yes, you read that project title right; this simple circuit will enable you to generate 5V DC from a single 1.5V DC AA battery. How can you pump 1.5V up to […]
Kayte Terry of Love Forever is writing a monthly column now for Get Crafty starting with this piece that takes you inside Etsy Labs in New York. Link.
Tod Kurt is author of Hacking Roomba and a founder of ThingM, a device studio focused on ubiquitous computing and materials science to create unique objects and experiences for people. At the Maker Faire, Tod will bring along a small Roomba army to demonstrate many of the hacks from his book and a bunch of […]
Veer writes: Taking art from found objects to new depths, Miwa Koizumi uses heat guns and soldering irons to sculpt startlingly realistic sea creatures from discarded liquid containers. Her PET project cleverly takes its name from PET (polyethylene terephthalate) – the highly recyclable, plant-based oil the containers are made from. See more of Miwa Koizumi’s […]
Tina sent in a comment to the post yesterday about the laptop sleeve showing her own woven fabric sleeve. I loved the entire Flickr set showing her weaving process. The colors are beautiful and look even more amazing woven together. Tina writes: I started weaving a few years ago and seem to enjoy making patterns […]
The second episode of AVR television is out! That’s right, an entire “TV” series devoted to a microcontroller, it doesn’t get more exciting than this – well, for us… In this second issue of AVR TV, we present the new AVR32 microcontroller: the UC3. We take a brief look at the features of this new […]
