Help Craftster with her Knitted Nintendo Clutch
Craftster Lyndzi knit this Nintendo controller clutch, but she’s looking for advice on how to keep the knitted clutch in shape so that she can give it as a present to a friend. What would you suggest?
Month: April 2008
Lilliput ~ My Little Friends Opening
I visited the Lilliput ~ My Little Friends Opening at Gallery Hanahou last night and posted some photos from the opening. The exhibit is an installation by avant-garde art collective ALFORT of Blythe dolls leading to a bed that visitors are invited to sleep in.
Tube Time @ Maker Faire
Eric will be bringing his a slew of vintage electronics to Maker Faire Bay Area. Come see, first hand, the results of his oscillograph restoration work and exploration in time-telling-tubes. Yes, those multicolored cylinders are old-style resistors! – A cluster of components forms the sweep oscillator of the Clough-Brengle oscillograph. The radial-leaded resistors are essentially […]
Super Nintendo Papercraft Model
deviantART user ryo007 has a Super Nintendo papercraft model that you can print out and make. [ via Boing Boing ]
Stanford Cool Products Expo
At first glance, Stanford’s Cool Products Expo looked like a regular college career fair. That is, until I saw the solar-powered car, tilting trike, Tesla car and BMW’s hydrogen car parked on the lawn. Inside the packed hall, instead of suits touting companies there were dozens of, well, cool products. They ranged from a design […]
Chip Packet Patches
On Instructables, user wocket has a tutorial on how to make chip packet patches by recyling those shiny potato chip bags. [ via Curbly ]
Silence your hard drive
For a buck’s worth of materials, you can quiet your PC by damping your hard disk’s vibration: As the pictures show, the drive is essentially suspended on the stretched elastic. The resilience of the elastic stops all vibrations from passing from the drive to the case — or vice versa, for that matter. … When […]
