HOW TO – Dollhouse Potholders
WhipUp points towards this fun tutorial on Freda’s Hive showing how to create whimsical potholders that look like fabric dollhouses. Depending on the fabrics you use, these could have so many different kinds of looks.
Month: January 2009
ybike 1.0: The Purple Pedals project
The Purple Pedals project consists of 20 solar-powered, geotagging, photo-taking, flickr-uploading bicycles called the ybike. It’s also a really interesting look at why a major sponsor would fund such an unusual project. There is a great list of assets at the end of the post that you might want to check out. So how does […]
A.M. Eye Candy – Embroidered Hearts
Embroidered hearts on linen from Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane.
How-to: Get 30 robot kits to market
This is a great instructable from the people over at oomlout that documents their process of getting an Arduino powered robot kit to the market. There are a lot of things to consider when setting up a ‘tabletop factory’ and this is a great resource for getting started. They cover everything from the tools they […]
BeagleBot – a Beagle Board robotics project
Congratulations to Antti Seppänen, whose Beagle Board-based robot is the winner of the first Beagle Board design contest. What’s more, Antti also created a very cool expansion board for the Beagle Board, and made the design available under a CC license: My Beagle bot required building an expansion board. Some requirements for expansion board: Wide […]
HOW TO – Turn Mollie into Maulie
Lenore from Evil Mad Scientist transformed cute Molly, a freebie plush pony, into a demonic zombie Maulie and she shared instructions.
QR code fence
In Australia QR codes are used mainly in advertisements, but check out this take-back-the-medium piece by one of the folks at Radical Cross Stitch: I’ve been working on stitching QR Codes for some time now. I’ve been doing them on regular Aida fabric (14 count mostly) and they’ve been working really well. So I decided […]