News from the Future! Mankind’s new best friend? – Giant trained rats… Reviled as vermin through the ages, rats are becoming unlikely soldiers in the struggle against two scourges of the developing world: land mines and tuberculosis. In Mozambique, special squads of raccoon-size rats are sniffing out lethal explosive devices buried across the countryside, remnants […]
Huge POV (Persistence of vision) via Hackaday. You can of course make your own version, maybe a little less “dangerous” using the POV kit we have in the Maker Shed store – propeller not included.
This is a wonderful animated short that was shown at the Encounters Short Film Festival. It’s called “Don’t Let It All Unravel”, it was directed by Sarah Cox, and all the action is knitted – or frogged (un-knitted). (Thanks, Melody!)
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Faux Bois Gift Wrap Knit a Singer-Songwriter! Robot Screenprints Red Potentiometer Earrings
The Exploratorium site has a section on cooking science – I found some neat info there about the science of sugar and a recipe for making rock candy. The white stuff we know as sugar is sucrose, a molecule composed of 12 atoms of carbon, 22 atoms of hydrogen, and 11 atoms of oxygen (C12H22O11). […]
LEDs are in technology all around us, familiar and helpful for sure but you may wonder – Who invented them? How do I use one? Is it possible to make my own LED?!? Learn the answers to these baffling questions and more in – MAKE presents: The LED. Suscribe to the MAKE podcast for more […]
There are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Motherboard Dishtowel Embroidery Birdseed Skull Frank Lloyd Wright Embroidery Yarn Performance Video by Jeanne Jo Manbroidery Pool on Flickr Big Ideas For Decorating Big Wall Space Felt Club in the LA Times
