HOW TO – Simple Paper Wreath
CraftStylish shows us how to create a simple, modern-looking paper wreath using colored papers and craft punches.
Year: 2008
5 minute project: keyboard thumbtacks
Got an old keyboard and some thumbtacks that need fancying? Consider turning them into keyboard thumbtacks by instructables user noahw. More: Enter key doorbell
Code to scape CNN.com election results
Eric posted up a cool Python script that he’s plugging in to his lighting system to turn the colors red/blue depending on who is winning… via Hackaday. My election party tomorrow will feature DMX controlled RGB LED lighting. The color of the house should reflect the electoral balance. The color will start purple, and drift […]
Paper computing
Interesting photos showing up in Leah Buechley’s photostream of reconfigurable circuit components attached with magnets to magnetic and conductive paint! Using a LilyPad Arduino variant, no doubt: paper computing. More: LilyPad Arduino LilyPad Arduino XBee mashup ready for prime-time
Top 5 election day mashups
Aside from the politics, opinions, and issues involved in this election, I’ve been really interested in how the current state of web technology, survey data, online conversation and public information would be merging together into web applications and utilities for the growing digital electorate. From finding a voting location, to enabling countrywide real-time political conversation […]
Teach Make!
On a cold night in January of 2005 I set out to find a magazine stand. One of my students, Michael McKinley, now a Mechanical and Industrial Engineering senior at UMass Amherst, had shown me an announcement in Wired about a new publication from O’Reilly. The new magazine was called Make, and though I had […]
Game-Inspired Skirt
Danielle Thompson used a vintage board game’s colorful geometric shapes as inspiration for making this fun appliquéd skirt.
