Bandana Shirt/Dress for Girls Tutorial
Daisy Janie shows you the steps on how to refashion a bandana shirt/dress for girls.
Month: May 2008
HOW TO – Sew a Faux-Smocked Dress
KBang on BurdaStyle has a tutorial on how to sew a quick, easy, and flattering faux-smocked dress or as the title of her project states “eight dollar dress”. I love the simplicity of it and how you can vary it with different fabric prints, add straps, or pockets.
Looping Musical Robot
This musical robot analyzes the incoming audio and tries to mimic it using a series of servos and solenoids attached to different objects. In this example it is trying to reproduce a clip from Citizen Kane. Simple automatic instruments are constructed from local materials and objects on site. The system learns the sounds it can […]
Chair Upholstery Roundup
Ikea Hacker posted a roundup of chair upholstery projects. Many of the projects include instructions. The Kip Chair (left) takes minutes and only costs an old t-shirt.
HOW TO – Paint Your Shoes
Mutantcarrot posted instructions on Cut Out + Keep on how to mod your shoes by painting them. Give your old shoes new life with a paint job. For more shoe mod ideas, check out Craft Volume 07.
Cornell University’s student microcontroller projects – Spring08
Another semester’s worth of cool microcontroller projects has come to a close at Cornell University and Bruce Land sent us the results for the Spring 2008 ECE 4760 course: Students in ECE 4760 at Cornell University were given the responsibility of choosing, designing and building a project using Atmel Mega32 microcontrollers. Over 30 projects this […]
Beer can coffin gets you drunk before the big sleep
67 year old Illinois native, Bill Bramanti built his future coffin in the shape of a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can because he just really loves the beer. Until he passes away, he’s using the coffin as a beer cooler, but admits that he has actually gotten inside the coffin to test the size. He […]