I collect patches for my travel pack, and they’re great for conversation starters while traveling. This patch can help you meet fellow nerds along your way, and let them take away a little digital something (website, email addy, favorite recipe) by snapping a phonepic. Here’s a sample use-case from the p8t.ch website: THEM: “Hey, what […]
A Dress a Day points out this fun comic-book themed dress made by Kristen of Woolgathering, which she wore to Comic-Con in San Diego last weekend.
Over on Cool Tool, Kevin Kelly has written a great review of the
Want to make an electric guitar from junk? Ranjit will teach you. There are still some spots left in his Electric Junk Guitar class Etsy labs in Brooklyn on The 30th (Wednesday). Sign up here! The electric guitar is a sophisticated and highly evolved instrument. But, you can make your own out of a few […]
In response to my posting of the hat-i-fied version of the Bleep Labs’ ThingamaKIT, MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder emailed me this cover from a 1949 Hugo Gernsbeck pub, Radio – Electronics. Thanks, Mark! More: ThingamaHat
Pink Tentacle points us to this amazing looking sea bream robot. Tai-robot-kun’s creator, professor Ikuo Yamamoto, says the robot can easily be mass-produced, outfitted with various cameras and sensors, and released into the sea to perform a wide range of oceanographic survey tasks. He adds that because the robot swims silently and looks like a […]
Check out the new Japan Craft Journal blog that features all things related to Japanese crafts. The blog has four contributors, three who have been lucky enough to travel there. Belinda (http://www.tuttifruiti.blogspot.com), Kristine (http://www.townmouse.typepad.com/), Corrie (http://www.retromummy.blogspot.com) and Leslie (http://goodness.typepad.com/goodness/) who lives in Nagoya and sells all sorts of Japanese goodness on Etsy. Belinda writes: [Japan […]
