All weekend at Maker Faire Austin I was chatting up a storm about the uses of conductive thread. We carried the E-sewing kit and the LilyPad Arduino kit in the Maker Shed, and I gave an embroidery demo on adding LEDs to your projects. I made this angler fish picture with the help of CRAFT […]
Best cat costume ever? What’s cuter than a platonic solid? A cat dressed up as a platonic solid for Halloween! This instructable details the making of a soft quilted tetrahedron costume for the more patient of my two cats.
Take advantage of apple season with this amazing recipe for “Sticky Spiked Double-Apple Cake with a Brown Sugar-Brandy Sauce“, reprinted with permission from In The Sweet Kitchen by Regan Daley on The Kitchn. I don’t think this cake could look tastier if it tried!
This week: Rokuro, Slow-Motion/Fast Motion Camera Tricks, World’s Simplest Motor? The Walking iPhone Robot, Twitch! Electric Shocks to the Face, D.V.D., The Knitted Reverse Face Mask. Rokuro Rokuro is an interactive art piece made with a rotating piece of suspended plastic fiber that allows for many different shapes appear in its illuminated whirring blur. The […]
Like LED Throwies but more for halloween, these guys haunted the Evil Mad Science table at Maker Faire Austin: Learn how to build one of these netherworldly light emitters here!
At Maker Faire Austin I got the chance to watch the folks from Austin Metal Authority demonstrate some hot metalworking techniques as well as see all the neat sculptural and functional works they make. There are more photos in my Maker Faire Austin 2008 Flickr set.
WhipUp shares a link to this fun post on Eddie Ross, showing you how to make a monogrammed pumpkin and a whole slew of fun Halloween decorations.
