Undercover’s Knit Brain Bag
Subversive knitting takes to the runways as Cool Hunting reports on the knitted brain bag by designer Jun Takahashi of Undercover. Link. Related: Knit Digestive System – Link.
Month: November 2007
Crochet Football Cozy
Alicia of Create! who made the baseball cozy and won our Stitch N’ Pitch contest is ready again for a new season of sports, this time it’s football with her cute crochet football cozy. Link.
Make a Joule Thief – Weekend Projects Video Podcast
MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe This week, Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to teach you how to make a super clever little circuit called the Joule Thief! The Joule Thief allows you to squeeze the life out of what most people think of as “dead” […]
Make a Joule Thief – Weekend Project PDFcast
You’re going to need a white or blue LED that is rated for 3 volts, a 1K resistor, a 2N 3904 NPN transistor, a toroid, two pieces of wire and a battery. You might even be able to scavenge this stuff out of your junk pile of electronics… you have a junk pile of electronics […]
Turn your old scanner into a camera of sorts
Here’s a nice hack that shows you how to convert your outdated scanner into a cheapo digital camera that can “scan” its surroundings. Pretty interesting images result from the process. Building a scanning camera from a flatbed scanner Link
Electro-PUFF Dimmers
International Fashion Machines is releasing a kit version of their fabulous Electro-PUFF light dimmers. No special skills are needed, so it could be a fun project to do with kids or give to a crafty friend interested in “smart” materials: The ElectroPUFF Craft Kit makes it possible for anyone to create a fun and funky […]
Knitted Heroes and Villains
Carol Meldrum’s new book, Knitted Icons, includes patterns for knitted versions of famous people from Che Guevara to Elvis Presley. Knitted Borat and Amy Winehouse are pictured above. The book includes a photograph of every finished doll and a brief biography of the icon. [via] Link. Correction Nov 16: The pictures above are actually readers’ […]
