MyrddinTheGeek needed a cover for his Kindle: The Kindle 2 unfortunately doesn’t come with a cover so I made one with a makers notebook. I cored out the pages to the thickness of the kindle. Now I have a hard sided cover a few extra pages for notes and all the reference pages in the […]
I love this sweet and simple lampshade upgrade from Make Grow Gather. She’s provided a photo step-by-step tutorial to show just how she created it.
Image from KuiperCliff The Steven writes in the comments: You say DIY bride, I think of Helen O’Loy by Lester Del Rey Well, maybe you haven’t heard of ol’ Helen O’Loy either. O’Loy sounds a lot like Alloy, doesn’t it? Spoiler Alert: Don’t read the wikipedia entry, it gives too much info. Spoiler-less synopsys: Dave […]
Ball chain is so useful, and now I see how. Sean Ragan made a very helpful guide to using some simple connections to form a virtually endless number of combinations for making 3D structures with the stuff, suitable for holding planters up off the ground.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, a nifty laser “sundial,” controlled by an ATtiny24 MCU and a servo: An Atmel ATtiny24 microcontroller drives an R/C servo which in turn rotates a line LASER taken from a LASER level. The microcontroller runs a software real time clock and turns the servo and the line LASER to […]
Here’s a roundup of this week’s Mending Month posts. Stay tuned! We aren’t even done yet. There’s lots more mending to come next week as well. Susan Beal shows you how to mend a bed sheet. Learn how to mend torn upholstery in Diane Gilleland’s tutorial. Arwen’s Patch 101 goes over the many ways you […]
Patty Maes of the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab introduces what may be the must have gadget in the not so far future. The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector […]
