It’s a been a while since we had our last roundup of projects from our Flickr photo pool, so here’s a big ol’ collection of recent highlights – 3D printed business card holder LED concrete furniture ThingaMunny Goblinator Lyrics box for practice/gigging Tree ornaments via laser Trumpet Hero! Classic handset gets bluetooth-ed Coffee cup speaker […]
This robot kit has a terrific lumbering gait. The YETI Walking Robot Kit is from Arexx Engineering. He uses two servos for locomotion and runs on a programmable ATmega8 microcontroller. It seems like most of the distributors are European. Has anyone out there gotten a chance to play with one? via Technabob
Ok, folks, I know not all of you approve of culture jamming shenanigans, but here are some gift ideas for that mischief maker in your life! Peggy Kit Create a light board with your own picture! You can make an LED sign for your window, a geeky valentine for your sweetie, one bad-ass birthday card, […]
Green Kitchen shares her tips on overcoming your fear of the zipper foot and shows us how she sews zippers into her various skirt projects using the glue-in method. The most difficult part of zipper installation is making it look good. With the glue-set method you eliminate most of the challenges. The process becomes quite […]
You know steampunk has gone mainstream when it seeps into academic institutions… I recently was given a steampunk assignment in one of my sculpture/metalworking classes, so I modded a vintage Kenmore sewing machine with some spare parts from Phoenix’s favorite junk shop, Apache Reclamation. The propellers on the drive wheel and thread spool spin when […]
Kayte at Craft Stylish shares a fun tutorial for using fabric scraps to make these colorful hairpins for all the ladies on your gift list.
This is a pretty interesting idea, taking the word chemical “back” as something good… or at least not “poisonous”… I agree! The Royal Society of Chemistry is today reclaiming the word chemical from the advertising and marketing industries. It has been misappropriated and maligned as synonymous with “poison”. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently defended […]
