I’m so excited that Sublime Stitching has teamed up with Handmade Nation to release this limited edition pack of fundraising embroidery transfer patterns! Faythe Levine’s Handmade Nation is an upcoming documentary about the DIY movement (a subject we like). This set of desgins by artist Kate Bingaman Burt features movie cameras and her famous, hand-styled […]
Gareth @ MAKE points us to a dollhouse version of Jake von Slatt’s steampunk keyboard, made from watch parts. For reference, here’s the full size one:
The Wired How-To-Wiki has a page up on how to photograph the stars with a digital camera, tripod, camera mount, and telescope. If you want to compensate for the Earth’s rotation (so you don’t get trails in the image), you’ll also need to pick up motor drive for your scope: It sounds like something you’d […]
Routerbots seem to be a bit of a growing trend in hobby robotics. These are bots built using the WRT54G routers which have open source firmware. The bot above was built by Andrey Mikhalchuk. He created a custom version of OpenWRT Linux and modified the Linksys router hardware so it could control the two hacked […]
Shelterrific points us to these cheeky crocheted pillows created by Toggle, which are crocheted and embroidered to resemble classic LPs. What a great idea!
I love this “cigar box lab” Brian posted on Hackszine. It was built by Raphael Abrams. Raphael explains: I like to hack on the go. So I made a charming little mini lab out of a cigar box and some electronic parts. It’s got a breadboard, a built-in Arduino, a couple of places to put […]
Here’s a photo essay by David Friedman of the inside of a Kentucky jean distressing factory; who knew aging denim was such an art! Via BoingBoing.
