The Shuttle/The Glider The Balance Controller Computer Scanner Rack Printer The Glider is wound up, The Shuttle is at the right position. The Shuttle moves to the left. The Glider winds down until it touches the book. The Shuttles moves to the right. The Glider, touching the book, filps the page. The Glider winds up. […]
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr Pool: This hilarious “neck sausage” scarf made by KnitStorm.
I love the people at Make and what they’ve done for the DIY community, so I jumped at the chance to guest blog here. Just a quick introduction: I’m a hacker who loves how to understand how things work inside & out. At my job, I design electronic systems; at home, I usually tend to […]
We’ve posted about Yarnia before, but this Portland gem deserves another mention. While visiting crafty family in Portland, I was instructed that I simply had to visit Yarnia during my stay. Proprietress Lindsey Ross offers a unique take on yarn shopping, and the possibilities are mind-boggling. Enter and find shelves of single-filament yarn in a […]
Check out this wonderfully disturbing piece by Jon Beinart! Via the AntiCraft
The History of Visual Communication… This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication. Wikipedia defines visual communication as: Visual communication is the communication […]
If you missed December’s biggest full moon of 2008, tonight will be the biggest full moon of 2009. NASA has a nice article about it. Johannes Kepler explained the phenomenon 400 years ago. The Moon’s orbit around Earth is not a circle; it is an ellipse, with one side 50,000 km closer to Earth than […]
