Reuse a crashed hard drive or two for a set of wind chimes. Easy to make and sound great. Thanks go to Thomas Arey for the original article in Make Magazine. To download Hard Drive Wind Chimes MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the Hard Drive Wind Chimes article MAKE 12 “Hard […]
Reuse a crashed hard drive or two for a set of wind chimes. Easy to make and sound great. From Make Volume 12 by Thomas Arey. View the PDF
Here’s part two of BBtv’s tour of the TCHO chocolate factory that David covered in his Proto column in MAKE Volume 14. I love the way they’ve bodged together village tech, Home Depot specials, and high-tech components to create machines and sensors for a few thousand bucks that would cost tens of thousands on the […]
Now you can have your own Batmobile! OK, so you can’t ride it around town, but you can assemble it and put it on your desk. I wonder how long this takes to build? Make your own Batmobile [Gizmodo]
I have to try this out! Apparently all you need is an Arduino, a few resistors, some aluminum foil, and you can build a simple 3D interface. I really hope this works as well as it appears in the video. The basic goal here was to make a 3D position sensing system that most people […]
Spotted on Apartment Therapy Chicago: Artist Virgina Fleck takes re-use to a whole other level by creating these colorful mandalas from discarded plastic bags.
Diane of CraftyPod has a new article up on CraftStylish that explains the basics on hand-sewing needles where she describes each needle type and which needles to use for your particular sewing project. Diane writes: Sooner or later, most crafters pick up a needle–whether to stitch an applique, embroider a design, bead or needlepoint, or […]
