Month: March 2009

Make your own radio programming

Make your own radio programming

[Photo from MetroMode] Michael Jackson’s death caused radio’s roboprogrammers to take a back seat for a while. Increasingly, over the past few decades, broadcast radio has ceased to be a local affair. As the FCC regulations on local ownership of media outlets has faded towards corporate behemoths, radio programming more and more these days is […]

8 Days of Easter Crafts

Melissa from One Crafty Mumma and Fiona from fionacarter.typepad.com are joining forces and posting 8 days of Easter crafting over the next two week period. The posts include cards, tags, sewing and other Easter inspiration. To kick things off, make this cute felt bunny card and this Easter bunny tag.

AIDG: water solutions

AIDG: water solutions

AIDG is a NonGovernmental Organization (NGO) that helps provide low technology solutions to help address environmental and health needs to people living in communities without great access to the systems that many of us consider requirements. Here are a few of their water-based initiatives: Solar Hot Water: XelaTeco, with support from AIDG’s wonderful interns, recently […]

Maker Shed weekly wrap-up

We introduced a lot of new products in the Maker Shed this week, and we have a lot more announcements planned for this week. I really like our new components and sensors. It’s something we have always wanted to offer, and now we do. Check out all the new arrivals in the Maker Shed. More […]

CRAFT weekly recap

CRAFT weekly recap

Here’s what’s been going on this week on the CRAFT blog: Week three of Mending Month is over, with some great tips on mending clothes and housewares! Matt Mets made a lemon cello for the label to go with his homemade limoncello. Sean Ragan shows us how to use ball chain to make a plant […]