Members of the Austin Fiber Artists group will be at Maker Faire Austin this weekend, giving visitors an intro to felting. They’ll demonstrate small felting projects, and then let folks try their hand at the process with their own projects in small plastic bags. Pictured above: A Maker Faire visitor tries felting at Maker Faire […]
Nice Battlestar Galactica mod via the Giz! If you want to make your own Cylon pumpkin this Halloween – we have a kit!!
Here’s an update on the Escape from Berkeley, the non-petroleum road race from Berkeley to Vegas: An interesting adventure had by all racers yesterday as we had to navigate around Tioga pass which had been temporarily closed (opening mid day yesterday, such is life). Some chose to go south over the 178 some chose to […]
21 of the most amazing photos you’ll ever see of the Sun @ Boston.com… The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minumum – in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year – with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has […]
Jeff made a fun Flash app that lets you listen to the price of a stock, he writes… So, my boy Mike Nathanson and I wore our brains on our sleeves at Flashcamp this weekend. We dreamed up a sweet idea of listening to stock prices, which we dubbed MoneyTalks. It uses the new SampleDataEvent […]
This week: Cochae – Origami Hackers, Man Builds Railway Around His House, Shibuya Handmade Arts Festival, Edible Speaker and Microphone, Korobe-Kun Toilet Paper Dispenser, Pipe-Crawling Robot, Draw Your Own Numbers – Tegaki Clock, Face Detection in Processing, Musclesuit, LEGO Mindstorms Roly Poly, and DApendulum. Cochae This team of origami hackers creates special paper that can […]
Stitch Lounge has a great quick craft on how to make this iPod cord caddy to keep your headphones from getting all tangled up!
