Molly at The Purl Bee made this beautiful wool felt patchwork blanket by hand using Mary Flanagan Wool Felt. I bought some while visiting Purl Patchwork in NY and it’s definitely the most delectable wool felt I’ve ever touched! Molly’s tutorial shows you how you can make one yourself, a great project to just take […]
Today is our last day at New York City FIRST Robotics Competition, thousands of kids, parents, mentors and teachers were on site for the competition and the career fair. There are a few competitions, the FIRST LEGO league is designed for young people ages 9-14, it uses uses the LEGO MindStorms System to provide creative […]
At least this vehicle will not cause a debate about the source of the electrical power. You know, the one about electric cars still getting their energy from the grid. The SUNN is completely solar powered, and as the inventor states; “You get infinity miles per gallon”. Now, if it only had the styling of […]
Amigurumi Girl has a free pattern to make this adorable amigurumi pear. [ via Thimble ] Related: Knit Fruit
I am not sure if this is vignetting or bokeh, either way it is a really cool photographic technique. The website has a really nice example of the effect. Learn more about, or just join the debate about, creating your own Bokeh.
MAKE was at the FIRST Robotics Competition over the weekend. One of the great things about going to these events is the people we meet. 16-year-old Matthew K. stopped by with his digital camera that he modified to shoot infrared pictures. Naturally, I asked if I could take a snapshot of Collin, one of our […]
Following Poromenos’ nifty “Hello World!” function, Jan Krueger posted a great explanation for why it works along with a general method for producing a trigonometric function for _any_ string you like: The magic behind Poromenos’s function is the Fourier theorem: any “mostly” continuous and periodic function can be expressed as a sum of sines and […]
