HOW TO – Mummy Treat Bag
Lime & Violet tips us off to The Crochet Dude’s free pattern for making this creepy mummy-shaped treat bag for Halloween!
Year: 2008
HOW TO – Little House Ornaments
Pimp Stitch shares a tutorial for making these sweet, highly customizable little house ornaments, a perfect holiday decoration. They’d be cute in orange and black too, for Halloween!
DIY bike brake lock
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Superlocal shares a simple solution for preventing a bike from rolling during train transportation – a velcro strap. I’m guessing a heavy-duty rubber band might do the trick as well. – DIY brake lock
CRAFT Demo Schedule for Maker Faire Weekend
It’s time to start mapping out your weekend at Maker Faire. For crafters, there are loads of fun things to check out. You can hit Swap-O-Rama-Rama, Bazaar Bizarre or visit any of the crafty Makers. There will also be regular demos at the CRAFT demo area in the Maker Shed, and interesting craft presentations and […]
Making MacBooks from giant sheets of aluminum
Today is a big day on the gadget sites, new Apple MacBooks – the cool thing (I think) is Apple showed videos of how their new laptops are made from carving them out of sheets of aluminum – how things are made (and why) is becoming more important and the lead story once everything else […]
DIY whiteboard with support frame
Tom sent us this take on the DIY whiteboard project – These instructions show you how to create a 4’ x 8’ whiteboard with minimal effort for about $40-50. It’ll take a little time (a couple of hours – most of which is waiting), but if you are cash strapped, it’s a good alternative. Clearly […]
Jean Shin’s TEXTile – 22,528 recycled computer keys make a “textile”
Jean Shin’s TEXTile via NOTCOT. 22,528 recycled computer keycaps and 192 custom keycaps, fabric, customized active keyboard and interactive software, video projection and painted aluminum armatures. In this interactive sculpture, thousands of recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. The keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist […]