“Wind Tree” by Elliot Montgomery connects a custom built turbine with a record player so that the blowing wind actually drove the turntable to spin causing the resulting sound to slow down or speed up depending on the available gusts. This project was built during a workshop at Solar One, “a New York-based center devoted […]
Today only – get CrossOver (usually $70) for free – runs Win apps on Mac and Linux… Saw this all over the place today, downloading now… CodeWeavers’ mission is to make Linux and Mac OS X fully Windows compatible operating systems. We do this through the power of Wine, which powers all of our CrossOver […]
I’m loving this kid-friendly bean bag chair project from the Michael Miller Fabrics blog. See more pics and download the PDF instructions here.
Learn to knit these teeny-tiny sock ornaments made from Classic Elite Yarns Alpaca. They recommend knitting up 25 of them to use as an advent calendar of sorts–you can fill each one with a chocolate or some other small treat.
Looks like more folks are talking about making things more than buying things on Twitter… Not sure if it means anything but it’s fun to poke around with the Twist site. If you want to follow MAKE we’re on there too…
The great writers’ guide to DIY – Features, Books – The Independent via RW. In his book Kafka’s Soup, Mark Crick parodied literary giants by imagining how their their best-known characters would cook. Now, in Sartre’s Sink, he’s got them tackling home improvements… Hanging wallpaper with Ernest Hemingway Tools: Pasting brush, Wallpaper brush, Decorator’s scissors, […]
Craft Leftovers shows us how to use bits and scraps of yarn to crochet this handy basket, which you can then felt and use for all kinds of storage and display needs.
