Exciting news from Canada: The Winnipeg Do It Yourself Festival is heading into its second year. This year it is running from March 10th to 16th at the University of Winnipeg and Red Road Lodge. Last year there were many interesting workshops and this year it appears to be growing. There are workshops covering everything […]
Continue ReadingThe fine folks at Graffiti Research Labs have won the Instrucatbles Laser Cutter Contest. I was honored to be one of the judges in the contest. It was an amazing group of finalists, with both impressive projects and equally impressive Instructables. The winning project was a low-budget camera special F/X rig GRL used in a […]
Continue ReadingBelieve it or not, Spring is on the way–and these clever plaques by Petunia’s Place are a great reminder of that. The plaques are découpaged and painted, while faux birdies sit on twigs the artist collects on her walks. Link.
Continue ReadingThese French engineering students wrote some software to control a little Pekee bot via Nintendo DS’ wi-fi. They utilize several different control methods you may recognize from DS games (such as the MarioKart steering interface). To check out the app for yourself, download the .nds file posted here. And just in case that demo was […]
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The Richmond Craft Mafia is holding a free social to help build the crafting community. It’s being held on Sunday, February 10th at the Camel. More info and directions – Link.
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From the MAKE Flickr pool: Ryan made his own retro-pixel cookie cutters and churned out a fresh batch o’ aliens. He seems to be a little wary of eating them tho, since the cutter shapes were assembled using solder. Yeah, probably a good idea to avoid all known lead content in food – but hey, […]
Continue ReadingFlickr user Rubykhan was inspired to create these cool cross-stitched versions of her fave pop-culture icons after seeing Craig Robinson‘s Minipops. I especially love The Breakfast Club cross-stitch pictured above. Link.
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