Flip videos @ Maker Faire
We have a few of those Flip cams here at Maker Faire, here are some quick videos from the “Make education day.
Month: May 2008
Bead Simple How-To Videos
Bead Simple author Susan Beal has been uploading some great how-to videos to her site, including this one, which teaches you how to make the beautiful Vintagesque Necklace pictured on the cover.
HOWTO – embed fonts from a SWF into a Flex app
I haven’t done any coding in Flex yet, but I came across this howto today that illustrates how simple it is to pull in a Flash SWF that has an embedded font and use it within the Flex application. Embedding the bold, italic, and bold-italic sets for a font allows you to use the standard […]
RECIPE: Hot Pink Popcorn Balls
Here’s a fun treat to whip up this weekend, courtesy Kittee: Hot Pink Popcorn Balls!
HOW TO – Take Measurements
Sew, Mama, Sew shows you how to take detailed measurements of your body so you can buy (and customize) the right sewing patterns for you.
Life improvement devices
There’s a lot of commercial technology out there intended to improve our quality of life (in a sense, almost all of it). A speaker @ Bay Area Maker Day mentioned a few devices she found effective for modifying her own behavior – Sleeptracker watch – wakes you at the end of the REM cycle closest […]
The Boiler Bar at Maker Faire
Tired of all the steampunk gunk? How about some “oilpunk,” via Jon Sarriugarte’s Boiler Bar and the Boiler Bar Theater. What’s oilpunk you ask? Drop by the Bar (in front of Oak Hall) and Jon will cleverly make something up. Here’s the Theater schedule: Boiler Bar Theater Presents . Saturday: . Circassian dancing beauties Denzel […]
