Month: April 2008

Kimono House Wrap Skirt

Lara from Thornberry posted photos of this wrap skirt with Japanese fabrics that she made at a workshop at a place called Kimono House in Melbourne. I don’t think I will be making it to Australia any time soon so I hope she posts more pictures or information soon.

Paper Bag Piecing

Blair from Eight by Eight blog posted photos of the process for paper bag piecing and wrote about it on the Eight by Eight blog. I had never heard of this process, but Blair describes it as cutting strips of fabric and placing them in a bag. She pulled out pieces of fabric in pairs, […]

Hot dog machine

Hot dog machine

Drew has reached an important milestone in DIY food reconstitution/tube-steak fabrication – Shown in this video is a lab-scale thermal depolymerization unit. It uses steam to break up food waste, and reconstitutes it into hot dogs. The finished product is nearly indistinguishable from a store-bought hot dog, and hey… at least you know what it’s […]

Shredz64: Guitar Hero for C64

Shredz64: Guitar Hero for C64

Jason writes – Toni Westbrook authored a new C64 game called Shredz64, bringing the best game of all time to the best computing platform of all time. You can use the real Guitar Hero controller using the PSX64 PS2-to-DB9 converter which Toni also created. This takes the game controller input and maps it to the […]