Refashioned Cardigan
Sari of Sweet Sassafras took a boxy vintage cashmere sweater and refashioned it into a more fitted and cuter version complete with a flower adornment. Find out how you can do this too in her tutorial. Link.
Year: 2008
The Drum Buddy -Analog synth drum machine vintage
The Drum Buddy is an amazing analog synth drum machine vintage, check out the photos and video! – …a one of a kind light activated analog synthesizer / rhythm machine hand crafted by New Orleans musician and inventor Quintron. The basic principal of operation is that there are cadmium sulfide light sensors hidden inside the […]
Sew Up BurdaStyle’s Winning Design – The Malissa Dress
Now you can sew up the Malissa dress made by Malissa Long the winner of the BurdaStyle design competition from last year. Here’s a great pattern to use some of the cool jersey knit fabrics I talked about last friday. You can download the pattern from BurdaStyle. Link.
Exercise bike charges your gadgets
This custom-built exercise bike wheel turns a generator from an old Volkswagen to charge a 12 volt car battery. I like the idea of using human power to generate gadget power, they just need to get an iPod cable hooked up to this thing. Lots of other cool projects at the below link. How to […]
Quick and Easy Knitted Braid
Nicole of All Buttoned Up has a great post about how to make an Estonian Braid quick, easy and seamless, perfect for all kinds of mittens and knitwear. Link.
Love is in the Air (cut vinyl record silhouettes)
Love is in the Air, laser cut vinyl record silhouettes by artist Carlos Aires – Link. Related: HOW TO – Vinyl record table lamp – Link. Glasses made from vinyl records – Link. DIY Dali vinyl record clock – Link. Vinyl record fruit bowl – Link.
Play Xbox by tilting your controller
This hacked Xbox 360 controller replaces one of the analog joysticks with a tilt sensor. Pretty simple hack with some nicely playable results. Xbox 360 Tilt Controller Phase Two – Link
