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Month: October 2008
Turning-drawer wooden safe
My pal Alex Schlegel writes: The 13 drawers of this band-saw box rotate rather than open outward. Objects for safekeeping are placed into the large, central drawer through a hole in the bottom of the box. Since the arrows on the front of each drawer point toward the drawer’s open side, objects may be moved […]
Handmade Nation Embroidery Patterns
I’m so excited that Sublime Stitching has teamed up with Handmade Nation to release this limited edition pack of fundraising embroidery transfer patterns! Faythe Levine’s Handmade Nation is an upcoming documentary about the DIY movement (a subject we like). This set of desgins by artist Kate Bingaman Burt features movie cameras and her famous, hand-styled […]
Dollhouse Steampunk Keyboard
Gareth @ MAKE points us to a dollhouse version of Jake von Slatt’s steampunk keyboard, made from watch parts. For reference, here’s the full size one:
Photographing the night sky
The Wired How-To-Wiki has a page up on how to photograph the stars with a digital camera, tripod, camera mount, and telescope. If you want to compensate for the Earth’s rotation (so you don’t get trails in the image), you’ll also need to pick up motor drive for your scope: It sounds like something you’d […]
Routerbots
Routerbots seem to be a bit of a growing trend in hobby robotics. These are bots built using the WRT54G routers which have open source firmware. The bot above was built by Andrey Mikhalchuk. He created a custom version of OpenWRT Linux and modified the Linksys router hardware so it could control the two hacked […]
Crocheted Record Pillows
Shelterrific points us to these cheeky crocheted pillows created by Toggle, which are crocheted and embroidered to resemble classic LPs. What a great idea!