Cards and Crochet
WhipUp tips us off to the work of artist Robyne Melia, who creates life-size dresses using greeting cards and crochet.
Month: January 2009
If Monks Are Learning Hands-on Science…
Mike Petrich and Karen Wilkinson of San Francisco’s Exploratorium‘s Learning Studio have a choice assignment this month. They are visiting a monastery in Sarnath, India, helping organize hands-on science workshops for Tibetan Buddhist monks. Mike and Karen who run the Learning Studio program at the Exploratorium were brought to India by a program called Science […]
HOW TO – Smashed Chickpea Salad
I’ve been super bored with the usual lunches lately, so I’m looking forward to trying out this smashed chickpea salad recipe from Smitten Kitchen. I like her description of it as a “deconstructed hummus”.
Inside French Girl Knits and Free Pattern
French Girl Knits , the new Interweave book by Kristeen Griffin-Grimes features 18 French-inspired seamless knitting patterns. In this video Kristeen gives a look inside the book as well as some background about her inspirations. Since the book only had room for 18 designs, but 19 were produced, KnittingDaily.com is giving away the pattern for […]
Chronulieta cigar box clock
Jared Boone, of ShareBrained Technology, was kind enough to send me a brand-new Chronulator 2.0 kit. It’s an Arduino-compliant analog clock (or anything you want) that uses panel meters as the display. I’ve written up a full review for MAKE volume 17 (verdict: great kit). This is a photo I took of the clock I […]
Make: television Episode 4: Fire Sculpture & DTV Antenna
Meet the Flaming Lotus Girls, a women-centric maker collaborative that creates gargantuan, fire-breathing sculptures. In the Workshop, John Park builds a digital TV antenna from wire coat hangers and a $10 video camera stabilizer. William Gurstelle shows surprising uses for cable ties, and Maker Channel contributors show off a motorized lounge chair, an eye-popping I/O […]
Portal gun replica befits a safer testing environment
Observe this impressively accurate reproduction of the ASPHD(aka portal gun) from Valve software’s acclaimed first-person-puzzler – My boyfriend made this ASHPD for me for my upcoming Aperture Science Test Subject costume. It lights up both blue and orange along the tube and in the barrel, and the prongs light up red as long as the […]