HOW TO – Embroidery 101
Jessyratfink posted an embroidery tutorial on Instructables as a follow up to her How to Sew tutorial. She covers both the basic stitches and tools you’ll need to get started.
Month: July 2008
HOW TO – Knit a Winged Heart Tattoo
If you like the classic Mom tattoo, but don’t want the lifetime commitment that comes with it, Jujube & Lolo have a free pattern to knit a winged heart mom tattoo. via the Anti Craft.
Made in Japan – Volume 25
This week: The Pocket Art Studio, The Portative Organ, Robot Fish, Eye Glasses: Always Keep Your Eyes Open, The Air-Conditioned Shirt, Automatic Dessert Making Machine, Otona no Kagaku Synth, USB-Powered CD Fan, Always Make the Shot – Wastebasket Three-Pointer Hack, Gakken Announces 8mm Movie Camera, and Bamboo-Copter Slow-Mo. Pocket Art Studio As we all know, […]
Stained glass for geeks
Here’s a nice litle roundup of stained glass works depicting subject unusual to the medium. Regarding the second photo above (not Link) – this huge piece is called ‘the electromagnetic spectrum in stained glass’ and can be found at the national air and space museum. according to the museum’s website it’s ‘a large stained-glass work […]
RGB LED cylinder
Dave Clausen of NYCResistor built this very sweet cylinder display using 95 RGB LEDs & ATmega168 microcontroller – The LEDs are individually addressable, and when you power it on, the software cycles through a series of animations, e.g. various moving rainbowy patterns, “rain”, “fireworks”, and so on. It doesn’t serve much of a purpose but […]
Baking pan tube amp
Gio writes – Mark has built a small tube amplifier project using the 6T9 vacuum tube. The tube amplifier project is constructed using a purchased PCB. The enclosure is a thin baking pan. A simple project that would make a good conversation piece on your desk. Sorry, no benefits reported from using a non-stick surface […]
Cyber Security Awareness Week
Dan Guido from the Information Systems and Internet Security Lab at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU wrote in about the Institute’s 5th annual Cyber Security Awareness Week. If you’re in high-school or a college undergraduate program, this is a great opportunity to test your infosec skills against your peers, and hopefully earn a little prize […]
