Year: 2008

Battlestar Galactica contest – DVICE, SCIFI.COM, MAKE present the “Make a Cylon” contest – Cylons Tricia Helfer (Number Six) and Grace Park (Boomer) will judge!

Battlestar Galactica contest – DVICE, SCIFI.COM, MAKE present the “Make a Cylon” contest – Cylons Tricia Helfer (Number Six) and Grace Park (Boomer) will judge!

Makers, we’re so excited about this Battlestar Galactica contest with DVICE, SCIFI and MAKE! DVICE, SCIFI.COM & MAKE present the “Make a Cylon” contest Cylons Tricia Helfer (Number Six) and Grace Park (Boomer) will judge! The Cylons were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies. Intelligent robots, they were used as slaves and soldiers […]

HOW TO – Make hamentashen Purim cookies

HOW TO – Make hamentashen Purim cookies

More holiday making today… Here’s how to make hamentashen Purim cookies Hamentaschen, or Hamen’s hats, are triangular cookies to celebrate Hamen’s defeat at Purim (see the Book of Esther). In Hebrew, they are called Oznei Haman – Hamen’s ears. They are eaten at Purim and included in mishloach manot, the Purim mitzvah of giving food […]

Garth Johnson’s “Muno” Shirt

Garth Johnson’s “Muno” Shirt

Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft sent me this cute photo after seeing last week’s “World’s Greatest Grandma?” post (about a woman who made tons of cool Yo Gabba Gabba-inspired crafts for her grandson). Says Garth: Claire and I melted into a puddle of envy when we saw the awesome Yo Gabba Gabba stuff you posted. […]

Decode code 39 barcodes manually

Decode code 39 barcodes manually

Davis Remmel writes: Code 39 is easy to recreate because it only uses two types of lines: wide and narrow. Also, each code has a beginning sequence (thin black, wide white, thin black), and an ending sequence (thin black, wide white, thin black, thin white, wide black, thin white, wide black, thin white, thin black.) […]