Found via the Craft Flickr pool, snaulkter makes seahorse softies out of materials like recycled sweaters and skirts. The seahorse above is a papa with a plastic bag in his fin for a crinkly effect. Related Futuregirl’s Seahorse Stuffies Pattern
The Long Thread’s Ellen Baker wrote a tutorial for making a bamboo beach purse. It’s her first bag pattern and looks pretty good by me.
The electronic peasant has an interesting project, prime for audio investigators – There are a number of different ways to send vibrations travelling down a spring, but most spring reverbs use torsional (rotational) motion, which is less sensitive to interference from external vibrations. Here is an experiment that The Peasant did with a Slinky Jr […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Feurig designed an Arduino USB programmer around the At90USB162 chip – There were a few lessons that I learned at the Arduino Cult induction workshop that I put together this month. One of which was that I needed to simplify my programmer design on the cable end and not […]
Josh sent us this proposed remake – an LED lamp that simulates the ambient effects of a television left on. Billed as security device to ward off thieves, there’s just something about it that leaves me scratching my head. True, it would use less electricity than a television left running for the length of your […]
FUN with the HALOGENS – Popular Science, 1939… WHENEVER the members of the halogen family put on an act, you can be sure there will be something doing in the way of entertainment. The nimblest of the family quartet undoubtedly is chlorine. You have seen this actor in several roles before–bleaching dyes, and attacking metals […]
Va3ngc’s DIYObservatory dome via D+N+R. ..last year I started drafting up plans for a brand new wooden dome. On June 7, 2003, my dream of a truly domed observatory finally came to fruition. The entire project took about 3 weeks to complete and actually was not as much work as I thought it would be. […]
