Jenny @ CRAFT writes: Craftster user Jehnaier and her boyfriend created this intricate origami Rubik’s Cube card for their math teacher. The card took 936 paper folds to create and opens up to reveal their message. Rubik’s Cube card – [via] Link.
Hackszine reader clickthegoogleads wrote to us about a set of Wiimote controlled curtains: The curtain control system is an existing system from Goelst and is called “G-Rail 6200”. Normally it is controlled by infrared or wallswitches. However, it can also be controlled with a CAN bus. I used this CAN bus to interface with an […]
Martha Stewart just kicked off her Easter Workshop series with a super-sweet egg card project. Visit her site for the step-by-step instructions and more project photos. Link. Related: • HOW TO – Knit an Easter Egg – Link. • HOW TO – Hollow Easter Eggs @ MAKE – Link. • Star Wars Papercraft Easter Egg […]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a piece on a local bar owner who took fending off bums into his own hands: Rufus Terrill, who owns a bar in downtown Atlanta called O’Terrill’s, has grown weary of the drug dealers and vagrants he says frequent the neighborhood. Rather than put the police on speed dial or hire […]
Ran across this circuit bent Furby sequencer over at the Matrixsynth blog – Each furby has 4 controls: mute, crash, loop and reset. The handle turns 8 cams which operate corresponding microswitches to create interesting rhythmic patterns. Part of the ‘setting up’ section at the beginning has been fast forwarded. Please commission me to make […]
On a visit to my friend Hannah’s house, she showed me some recent purchases she’d made from an amazing jewelry artist named Liz Jones of Betty Jo Designs. Liz takes discarded vintage linoleum and turns it into amazing and intricate multi-layered brooches and necklaces. Find out more at Liz’s “LinoForest” blog. Link.
Unusual Marine Animals, or UMAgurumi, are these fun little sea creatures for you to crochet. Check out the humpback whale, sea dragon, and sea slug – Link. Related: Amigurumi Snail – Link. Amigurumi Eel – Link. Amigurumi Octopus Pattern – Link.
