How a painting is made…
12 start to finish photos of a egg tempera with gold and palladium leaf painting – start to finish… from Fred Wessel.
Month: April 2008
HOW TO – Make a knitted calculator
Jenny writes– Katie Park of CaffaKnitted shares her free pattern for making this fun oversized knitted calculator, which also doubles as a throw pillow! Knitted Calulcator Pattern.
Puzzle – Kremlin orders 3,200 mice
Ok gang, try and figure out what the Kremlin is “making” with 3,200 mice… via Evil Mad Scientists. My guess, they’re going to enter the M-prize or a mouse-mouse for each office worker.
Poromenos’ hello world curve
Take a peek at this curve. If you take the rounded y value for every integer x from 0 through 11, you’ll have yourself the ascii values for the string “Hello world!”. Well, I have a computer architecture exam in six hours and can’t be bothered, so I figured I would realize a lifelong dream […]
Use a digital photo-frame as a second display
This is definitely not a beginner project, but the results are fantastic. I would love to see a half-dozen of these photo-frames displaying all sorts of information. Learn more about how to use a cheap digital photo-frame as a second display.
DIY Macro lighting using a styrofoam cup
Photophool has a great CCRRFD-RNX Magnum DIY macro lighting solution using a cup… Thanks Steve! After quite a bit of real world usage, I’ve concluded that most users of the Raynox DCR-250 aux close-up lens will be well served by this simplified version of my styrofoam cup ringflash emulator. The stronger 32 ounce cup makes […]
Create a “StarBug” from the show “Red Dwarf”
Here’s a how to on building a “Starbug” (as designed by Alan “Rocky” Marshall) from the television show “Red Dwarf”. Pretty nice details on the link below to make this scary looking spaceship. Scratchbuilding Starbug from Red Dwarf
