HOW TO – Make Personalized Child Clothing Hangers
Zakka Life shows you some fun ways to make simple personalized child hangers from using a wood burning tool to using scrapbook rub-on transfers.
Month: August 2008
HOW TO – Make a Pinch Pouch
Sarah at The Small Object shows you how to make this adorable pinch pouch and includes links on where to buy the flexible frame. [ via Whip Up ]
Urban Sustainability Q&A With Scott Kellogg
Scott Kellogg, author of Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-It-Ourselves Guide, took the time to let me pick his brain. He’s also agreed to check out the comments below himself; if you’re lucky, he might even answer some of your questions there. A sketch of a floating trash island from Scott’s book. 1. What […]
Knitted Henry VIII
From the CRAFT Flickr Pool: user caffaknitted followed up her knitted Anne Boleyn doll with a knitted Henry VIII. She has an Katherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, and Anne of Cleves as well.
Satellites track Mexico kidnap victims?
I’m trying to figure out what’s up with this story… People are getting kidnapped – got that part, so they’re getting RFID chips implanted… which helps how? Snippet from the article… The chips cost $4,000 plus an annual fee of $2,200…. Xega, based in the central Mexican city of Quererato, designed global positioning systems to […]
Robot guitar tuner
Huh, interesting page about “PLEK” a German designed robot guitar tuning system via Metafilter… PLEK is a unique computer controlled precision robot developed by the German company A+D Guitarrentechnologie GmbH in Berlin. The machine measures the neck, fretboard, and frets and finds differences within a thousand of a millimetre. These differences is then sanded off […]
Display batting stats in a Google Gadget
Andrew Odewahn, editor of Baseball Hacks, sent in a link to this great article about how to display batting statistics in a Google Gadget: This article demonstrates how to use several Google Code APIs using a baseball hack as an example. We will create a Google Gadget that displays Major League Baseball batting statistics. You […]