Yo-Yo Fabric Covered Thumbtacks
Jessi from the aesthetic onion has a tutorial showing you how to make yo-yo fabric covered thumbtacks. Link.
Year: 2007
Dancing irons
These Oliso irons can lift up on a tiny leg, so – of course here they are dancing to a holiday tune. I could see using these for a, er “art project”… – Link.
Free Processors for modders
Intel is giving away free processors and other goodies to the winners of the Intel Modding Competition, details and more here. Thanks David! – Link.
Scrappy Crochet Stocking
Crochet yourself a stripy stocking from yarn scraps by Knitsonya. Love the colors and the texture! Link.
LEDs light up sustainable traffic island
“CO2LED”, an installation by artists Jack Sanders, Robert Gay, and Butch Anthony connects up 522 solar-powered LEDs on tall rods with plastic bottles at the top to light up a traffic island in northern Virginia. Built to promote sustainable urban luminance and recycling, all of the materials were reused after the project came down this […]
Sun Niagara 2 CPU – open source hardware…
Adding to our list of open source hardware, the Sun Niagara 2 CPU is now open sourced. Most of the open source hardware we cover (and help by putting in our store) are things you can build at home, while most people don’t have a chip fab at home (yet) Sun has done a great […]
Knit Space Invaders
ax174 points us to Dutch Blogger Saskia who shares with us her free pattern for knitting a Space Invader toy. Link.