Brown Paper Bag Recipe Cards
Learn how to recycle brown paper bags into recipe cards in this tutorial by Jackie on Crafting a Green World. She also includes a PDF of her recipe card design for you to easily print with.
Month: February 2009
Copper Band-Aid
I’m taking an introductory metalworking class, and for our first sample project I made this copper Band-Aid. I formed the strip on a hydraulic press (read: car jack in a steel frame) sandwiched between layers of acrylic (bottom) and flexible urethane (top). The pad is textured by running it through a roller against some window […]
Snap circuits
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – a favorite each year, Snap Circuits from Elenco. We like these kits so much for teaching kids we have them in the Maker Shed too! The one pictured above isn’t out yet, it’s “green” alternative energy – the circuits are powered by: solar power, wind power, crank power, chemical/battery power […]
Embroidered knee MRI Slice
I’m working on a piece where I embroider several of the slices from my knee MRI, and this is the first one. I really like how this project is going to turn out.
The Erector set is now a talking iPod dock robot
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – many of us know Erector as the iconic metal building “toy” for kids. Erector Set is the trade name of a toy construction set that was wildly popular in the United States during much of the 20th century. Like Meccano that was patented in 1901, it consists of collections of […]
Retro gaming @ The Toy Fair
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – there are rows of Chinese-speaking-only vendors who are indeed selling something, I just wasn’t sure what. Above are some photos from a retro gaming booth, it seems like these devices can play just about every retro console game made but it’s was hard to tell exactly what was going on.
3D scanning with a web cam and projector
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – One of the more interesting companies was 3D3 solutions, they use off the shelf web cams and presentation projectors to make a 3D model, you can see me getting 3D scanned above – good stuff and not as expensive as many of the other commercial packages. FlexScan3D is an innovative […]