Knitted Ash
Cakeyvoice is at it again with this funny knitted version of Ash, Bruce Campbell’s iconic character from The Evil Dead films. Groovy.
Year: 2008
Anatomical Fashion
At a London fashion show, Manish Arora created this “visible human” outfit with Swarovski crystals; I love bones on clothes! Via BB. Photo by Gareth Cattermole. More: Skeleton Cardigan – CRAFT Video Podcast part 1, part 2, pattern
Glass bottle table
Here’s a design for a sturdy table using just glass bottles and glue for the base. I wouldn’t think glass bottles glued together would give you a table capable of supporting 200 pounds, and I’m glad to be proven wrong. Glass bottles are one of the few ‘recyclables’ that my local recycling center has to […]
Bike panniers from surplus army bags
Check out this Instructable on converting an army surplus bag into a bike pannier. $5 at a flea market is a bit cheaper (and cooler) than the commercial panniers I’ve seen. Here are some other DIY panniers we’ve covered: Bike pannier from messenger bag DIY panniers from ammo containers
Live via hologram
During tonight’s election coverage, CNN pulled out some deep tech, displaying Jessica Yellin live via hologram. I looked closely and wasn’t even able to see the R2 unit behind the scenes. <update> My original impression of how this works is below. A comment from Eric suggests that this might actually be a real hologram that […]
Sparky: DIY telepresence robot
The Gomi Style guys have built a new edition of their telepresence robot, incorporating the Make Controller: Build instructions, including a custom Skype plug-in to control the robot via text messages, here.
Knitted Election Mascots
Cathy of California just posted these vintage knitted election mascots on her blog. They’re just as cute today, 36 years later.
