Stitcher extraordinaire Andrea Zuill writes in about a new online contest she’s hosting. Here are the details: I just want to give you a heads up regarding my Flickr competiition, Stitched by Hand, Old School Sewing Competition. We have 42 competitors. There will one winner for each category. Badbird (aka me) will choose these winners. […]
Eric Gradman, the hacker who gave us the awesome TRS-80 bluetooth hack, sent us a link to his NotPocketSimon project. This was a quick and dirty collaborative version of the Milton Bradley Simon game from the ’80s that he put together in just 8 hours. He took it to the most recent Mindshare event. …the […]
All you New York makers can stop reading this right now. However, if you’re a maker who grew up with real NY pizza, then moved to a place lacking it, like, say, Los Angeles, this site is for you. Jeff Varasano, a New Yorker in Atlanta, has spent years figuring out how to replicate the […]
Lime & Violet points us to this free PDF pattern download from Hinke Schreuders, showing us how to knit up a lovely cabled pullover. I love the length of the sleeves, and the bold cable motif.
Science & the City / New York Academy of Sciences has a few seats left for their upcoming event “The Science of the Five Senses” – if you’re in NYC check it out! In this stimulating series, scientists at the cutting edge of sense research team up with cultural icons – including a gourmand, an […]
The Kitchn shares a recipe for these sweet and spicy Rosemary Roasted Cashews, a perfect snack to whip up for your Thanksgiving guests this week.
Bill Vorn’s “Evil/Live 2” is an interesting sound and light installation based on the algorithm Game of Life where each light represents an individual in a simplified version of life’s self-organization. The project was built using a matrix of 256 halogen lights (16 x 16) is hanging from the ceiling on an aluminum structure. Audio […]
