Crafty Chica’s Kathy Cano Murillo not only has the most amazing painted luggage, now she shows you how to personalize your travel companion even more with this tutorial on how to make a watercolor paper luggage tag. Perfect for that quick I.D. at the luggage carousel. Link.
Randofo writes – An H-bridge is a type of circuit that you can use to get a reversible DC motor to spin both clockwise and counterclockwise. In other words, this circuit allows you to quickly reverse the direction a motor is spinning by using a switch or controller chip to change its direction. I’m going […]
On Thursday, August 23 at 8PM, Etsy Labs is teaming up with Make Magazine and Create Digital Music http://createdigitalmusic.com/ for another Handmade Music Night. Come check out the projects on display, meet other like-minded people, and listen to some handmade music! At the last Handmade Music Night, there were instruments made from an iron, a […]
Neat idea, add inch (or centimeter marks) to your headphones and use them as an always-with-you tape measure or quick measurements – Link.
Peter writes – I love to read in bed. This is one of the true pleasures in my life, and I begin and end every day doing it. One day, I was reading an article about living off-the-grid, which seemed like a neat idea, but also a real stretch for a production home suburbanite like […]
Steve writes – Since you pointed folks at Games Workshop’s hobby articles, I thought you’d appreciate the work of Bruce Hirst. He sells molds for folks to cast their own bricks and other bits to make models. What makes him so impressive as a maker is how he encourages people to make their own molds […]
David writes in with his latest open source telephony project – The IP04 is an IP-PBX that runs Asterisk on a Blackfin processor in a tiny embedded form factor. It has been designed by an international team of telephony/DSP hackers using the “open hardware” philosophy. The IP04 has now gone into production – one of […]
