Why Use a Topstitching Needle?
Pink Chalk Studio weighs in on when and why to use a topstitching needle as opposed to a regular ol’ universal needle–if her photo illustrations don’t convince you, I don’t know what will.
Month: May 2008
Server-side Google Analytics
Peter van der Graaf did a little analysis of the URLs that are generated by the Google Analytics Javascript API and put together a very useful tutorial for building Analytics-enabled applications without the use of Javascript. When you look at the analytics javascript code you see that it combines several sets of data into an […]
Solar powered light-graffiti projector
Instructables user RDN1 made a tutorial for hacking a solar-powered garden lamp into a light graffiti message projector. He writes: I recently read this interesting article in Wired magazine about “Light-Graffiti Hackers”. The Problem with light-graffities is that you need a power source to make them permanent, so you usually can’t put them everywhere you […]
The Handmade Market in Raleigh, Saturday May 3
It’s that time again–time for another edition of The Handmade Market in Raleigh, NC! From the press release: The Handmade Market is a semiannual indoor designer craft fair and market featuring handmade goods from 50 artists, designers and crafters from NC and beyond. The event runs from 11 am until 5 pm on Saturday, May […]
Artist repairs spiderwebs
Nina Katchadourian is an artist who’s done some interesting work mending spiderwebs. From her site: The Mended Spiderweb series came about during a six-week period in June and July in 1998 which I spent on Pörtö. In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired […]
HOW TO – Convert a webcam into a microscope
It’s amazing what a little lens flip can do – check out this simple how-to on webcam to microscope conversion – Convert webcam to microscope (google translation)
HOW TO – Tie Dye a Heart T-Shirt
The Crafty Chica recently linked to this great video from one of her cohorts at Duncan Enterprises, which shows you how to tie-dye a heart t-shirt using some of their great fabric dyes.
