This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Lynette Andreasen’s latest work is this silver platter with embroidery called Trace. User PoPkO! made these custom butterfly wing locket necklaces for a wedding party. User joannetracydesigns made this thank you keychain with braille, too! User buildmakecraftbake made this greeting card from an old floppy disk.
Knit up these super cute Easter Finger Puppets by Whitney of The Purl Bee. I love the little chick!
Ideablob has a collection of projects that users of their system have submitted to a user response contest to win funding. Here is a quote from their About Us page: ideablob.com is where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and grow their business ideas – and have a chance to win $10,000 towards fulfilling […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Laser sundial [above, bottom-left] How-To: Sample sequencer w/ Meggy Jr. + Arduino WaveShield DIY photobooth looks classic LED badge hacking MIDI control panel based on Arduino with a personal touch [above, bottom-right] Trumpet Hero mod [above, top-right] Keeping time with ChronoDot [above, top-left]
LEGO hacker Philo Hurbain needed a way to model some of the more complex LEGO parts for use in the LDraw LEGO CAD program. Most LEGO parts are easy to model, but something like the tiny LEGO frog, shown above, is a little more tricky. Philo’s solution: a 3D scanner made entirely of LEGO, save […]
When you can’t mend it anymore, A Patchwork World transforms her friend’s daughter, Ava’s favorite T-shirt into huggable pillow in her T-shirt pillow tutorial.
Here are the Show Notes for Episode #003 of Make: Talk. Our guest was Forrest M. Mims III. News of the Week Before we talked to Forrest, Dale told us about his meeting with Rodney Brooks and Patrick Sobalvarro of Heartland Robotics and how they talked about radical changes happening in small-scale, cottage production and […]
