My friend Alex is addicted to fishing. I tried to tag along but all I was interested in was trying to make jewelry from the shiny bits he tied to his line. Then recently, he got into fly fishing and showed me this video of salmon flies by Davie McPhail, which totally blew me away. […]
Kyle Phillips is an Interactive Designer here in the Twin Cities and we’re all super excited to welcome him to Make: Day this Saturday! His project combines a custom-built, multi-touch surface table with software that configures and displays information from Digg. Kyle writes, “What Matters Most” is a multi-touch application exploring the media-viewing habits of […]
The Corkscrew is an ingenious mechanical sculpture comprising almost 300 found objects which have been cast in bronze and assembled to create a priceless object trouves. The Corkscrew is not only an amazing sculpture, which dramatically emerges from its fabulous cabinet, but is quite simply a work of pure, mechanical genius which removes the cork […]
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with this recipe for Corned Beef and Cabbage from Chow.com. I never knew about the corning process for meat! From Chow.com: The term corned refers to the tradition of using large salt granules the size of corn kernels to preserve the meat. The corned beef you buy in the store, ready […]
Cindy of Skip To My Lou shares her tutorial on how to make a felt brown bag lunch complete with sandwich, chips, and treats!
Check out this Instructable on winding different conductive threads together to get different thicknesses, resistances, and textures by adding in your favorite yarn, too!
Gerrit sent us a link to his Arduino project that syncs a strand of lights to the beat of the music. He uses Processing to analyze the sound, and an Arduino to control the relay. He plans on upgrading to solid state-relays in the future, along with making an enclosure for safety. Thanks Gerrit! I […]
