Sewing Green Sneak Peeks
Betz White shares some exciting sneak peeks at her forthcoming book, Sewing Green!
Month: January 2009
Garden pallet work table
Homegrown Evolution has a neat garden work table made from a pallet – very simple. It would make great greenhouse shelves, too. I’ve heard that pallets are pretty much all chemically-treated so they don’t rot – does anyone know if this is true?
Compartmentalizing your purse
Jake von Slatt carries a purse — and he’s man enough to call it that. He’s also geek-maker enough to want to properly organize its innards with desired compartments. I’ve never thought of making additional organizing inserts with accordion folders, file folder stock, glue, and packing tape, but it sure looks like it works well. […]
Go-Robo software for WowWee Robots
Q4 Technologies, Ltd is a UK company that makes a line of software to control the WowWee toy/hobby robots. Anyone who’s spent any time using a WowWee controller to remote-control or script program routines for their bot knows how tedious, and limiting, this method can be. Go-Robo Studio works with most of the WowWee Robotics […]
Super simple automated lighting
From the Make: Flickr pool Most would agree that the safest way to control home lighting is by using the pre-existing wall switch ;) Stuart of Oomlout shares this instructable for dead-simple switch control using Arduino and a mini servo motor. The design uses acrylic plates from Oomlout’s kit but specs to build your own […]
HOW TO – Make a Necklace from Stockings
Don’t throw out those colorful tights that have a few rips or snags–use Smaggle’s tutorial and turn them into textural modern necklaces! [via WhipUp]
Sound installation uses its own force to create vibrations and feedback
”Minimum_Module” by Limiteazero is an open source sound installation (you can download the source code for it at the link below) built with Processing where 4 frequencies are generated by 4 laptops and played through a subwoofer which creates vibrations on 4 steel plates which are picked up with microphones as visualized as a wave […]