Hillary Lang of Wee Wondefuls has a new embroidery Stitchette! The Peppermint Fairy Stitchette embroidery patterns feature the Peppermint Fairy and her friends – polar bear, gingerbread pals, penguin, deer and gingerbread mouse house. The perfect embellishment for holiday gifts. Just $8 at Wee Wonderfuls. Link.
You can use the Quality of Service (QoS) feature on many routers to optimize your internet connection for devices and services that are most important to you. Adam at Lifehacker put together a quick walkthrough for tuning the QoS settings on our favorite router firmware, the open-source DD-WRT. Your internet connection is an indispensable part […]
From HackedGadgets: James Brown, Shawn Ironmonger, Michael Moninski and Dan Moore from Purdue University put together quite the gambling machine. They made a Smart RFID Poker Table that could keep track of where chips where placed on the table… “Our project aims to simplify the poker playing experience by providing each player at the table […]
Tracy of Shutterbean whipped up some quick and easy apple turnovers using frozen puff pastry and other ingredients she already had on hand. What a great breakfast for chilly mornings! [via] Link.
Get your very own Jolly Roger throw pillow for your couch. – [via] Link.
Artist Adam Parker Smith created this disturbingly cool installation of heads on stakes, titled Bold as Love, crafted from felt, wood, and pins. It’s on display at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art in NYC through January 19, 2008. (Thanks, Alison!) Link.
Roger Pellegrini writes: Wanted to send you a note about a second video I did, also starring the wind-up toy robot and synths [featured in the first Robotmakers vid], but with some content that could be of interest to Makers. Back in the mid-1980’s, I dug a couple of first generation laserdisc players out of […]
