Grace at design*sponge shows you how to make these cute birdie wedding cake toppers by Luke and Brian. The birds are made from styrofoam and covered in glue, tissue, fabric and sparkles. Link. Related: DIY Wedding Cake Toppers – Link. Super Mario Wedding Cake – Link.
Whip up posted this toy bunny made by etsy seller cocoondesigns. The bunny is made from old felted sweaters and it is stuffed with scraps of wool. What a great project for sweaters whose best days are behind them. [via] Link. Related Felted Bowls – Link.
Tonight is the DIY Salon at the Museum of Art and Design. From the announcement: Join MAD and the Church of Craft for a night of hands-on art-making, music and refreshments in celebration of the Museum’s current exhibitions “Pricked: Extreme Embroidery” and “Cheers: A MAD Collection of Goblets.” I will be there and looking forward […]
Care for the wide variety and uniquely plastic-sounding voices a general midi synth? This forum thread on electro-music.com details how you can make your own from an old Soundblaster daughter board – This is a very simple project that will allow you to add a GM Midi Module to your sound creation arsenal. It can […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made these ATmegaxx8 breakout boards that double as business cards. Windell writes: Our design goals for this project were (1) to make a printed circuit board version of the minimalist target board for the ATmega168, encompassing a place for the chip and a connection to the 6-pin ISP header, (2) to […]
Here are the slides in PDF format from the talk “Open source hardware” – this year there was a lot of hardware folks at Etech! Open Source Hardware Phillip Torrone (Maker Media), Limor Fried (Adafruit Industries) Open source hardware is a term slowly working its way into many new projects and efforts, but what is […]
For electronics projects simple and small, consider using an old 9V battery case It provides a built in snap, easily connecting it to a new battery for power. When using a battery as a case, keep in mind that: – the inside of the battery should be insulated (with blue masking take in my case) […]
