USC Trojan Amigurumi
Christen Haden, author of “Creepy Cute Crochet”, made this USC Trojan amigurumi for her boyfriend’s mom. I love a perfect union of football fandom and craftiness. Found in the CRAFT Flickr Pool.
Month: July 2008
Alternative Energy: The Pressure Wheel
This is an incredibly simple and cheap system for generating power from water. The basic concept is using a turning wheel to generate water pressure at 35psi. That pressurized water is then used to power a turbine. It is completely self-regulating and a great source of green energy. Check out the website for some videos […]
Embroidered Receipts
Frances Trombly is an artist who recreates every day objects using weaving, embroidery, cross stitch, and crochet. Pictured are receipts that she hand-embroidered. via Creativadoration.
Robofish out of water
Latest fishy project from Crab Fu. Flapper
Prison makers
This photo gallery by Marc Steinmetz really illustrates the essence of making what you “need” from what you have at hand; the objects are rough, but incredibly elegant solutions to problems that most of us will never have to solve.
Find and Grep 101
Find and Grep are perhaps the most used command line tools for the Linux user or administrator. Terse but powerful, these two commands will allow you to search through files and their contents by almost any imaginable attribute or filter criteria: file name, date modified, occurrence of the some specific word in a file, etc. […]
Join Vickie Howell’s Craft Corps
Vickie Howell wants you to join the Craft Corps! Vickie writes: Calling all crafters! I’m gearing up to write my next book, Craft Corps (pronounced Craft Core) which will focus on the community perpetuated by craft and the designers & hobbyists who feed it. As part of the content, I’m hoping to include 50-60 short […]
