San Francisco is Crafty
Leslie from Feisty Elle has taken inspiration from Craftypod‘s Sister Diane and created a Google Map highlighting all that’s crafty in her neck of the woods: San Francisco. Link.
Year: 2007
When Zombies Attack!
Backyard FX came over to the Make: Labs check out my zombie proximity device and I lost a leg. Learn how to rip anyone’s leg off (or at least appear to do so) in this video! – Link
Recycled Office Chair Elements into Ottoman
Sara points us to a great recycle project by M. Patririzio who took an old office chair and recycled elements to make this cool looking ottoman. Link.
Concrete Crickets NPR Story
Artist Michael Dory is still making his “Concrete Crickets,” these little electronic devices implanted in smushed cups and cans, and NPR has done an audio story on him and this form of streetcorner graffiti. – [via] Link. Related: Concrete Crickets on MAKE – Link.
Build a battery meter, show your friends that alkalines aren’t “dead” yet
Even though alkaline batteries are slowly disappearing in exchange for the re-chargeable nickel metal hydride and lithium in most consumer electronic devices, there are still a few people who use them. Here’s a nice project to test the strength of the remaining AA batteries you have lying around your house if you can’t find your […]
Video game system based on 3 microcontrollers blasts alien’s butts
Here’s a really nice open source hardware/software game system that uses PIC chips to create a genuine 80s style shooter. All of the instructions on how to build this project are on the link below. It might be smart to figure out how to make some of the wires go away though. Alien Slaughter! – […]
MAKE and CRAFT: Now with More Huggable Trees
Make & Craft Magazines Embrace Recycled Paper — All future issues will feature 30% post-consumer recycled content paper — Gareth @ MAKE writes: Our Benevolent Overlords at O’Reilly Media have announced that future issues of both MAKE and CRAFT (starting with volumes 12 and 5 respectively) will have 30% recycled paper content (up from the […]