HOW TO – Pleated Purse from Picnic Tablecloth
Karyn at Fat Orange Cat writes in with this great tutorial from Bettyninja on how to turn a checkered tablecloth into a picnic-themed pleated purse – Link.
Year: 2008
Wind power for kids
From Geekdad: The KidWind Project is run out of Michael Arquin’s basement in St. Paul, MN, and is all about educating kids about wind power. One part of this is offering really cool wind turbine kits from their website for home assembly and use in science fair presentations. These kits look like great Geekdad family […]
Free Ollivander Octopus Pattern
Free patterns make me happy; I learn every day from the free knowledge others publish. Here’s a cute and free pattern from Craft Bits to crochet a stumpy-legged octopus – Link.
HOW TO – Make short range “personal radar”
Chris shows you how to make a really interesting close “proximity radar system” using IR – Link. Related: Make – Volume 10 – Radar Speed Detector (DIY: Circuits) (Page 148) – Link.
Peeps Diorama Contest
Kevin writes in to alert us of the upcoming Peep competition. From the Chicago Tribune: The idea is to build a diorama with Peeps as the leading characters. (We’re not being original here; we stole the idea from The Washington Post, which did it last year after stealing the idea from the St. Paul Pioneer […]
MAME cabinet doubles as jukebox and internet kiosk
Here’s a pretty nice how to on building a MAME cabinet out of an old arcade game machine. The author has also rigged it to play MP3s and function as a browser. MAME even runs from DOS in this version as well. Projects: Arcade Machine – Link
The NEXT that hosted the world’s first website
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s original computer, the first host for the “World Wide Web,” invented at CERN, photo from Bruce Sterling – Link. Related: The first WWW url – Link. Screenshots of original browser – Link.
