The latest addition to my feed reader is There, I Fixed It, a site collecting fantastic and hilarious examples of jury-rigging in daily life. My favorite so far is the point-of-use hot water heater shown above, but the “Franken-chair” has to take a close second. Thanks to Melody for steering me to it.
Not sure how it is to play on this board, but it sure looks cool. Paul Fryer – Chess Set for Telsa
Lee Meredith has a great DIY roundup on spinning yarn at Threadbanger from links on tutorials, videos, and yarn techniques.
Make: television had a blast shooting this past week at Eurekafest, the Lemelson-MIT Program’s celebration of invention. We were there to capture the spirit behind inventing and talk to high school and college students about their experiences as inventors. Groups from all over the country came to participate in a four-day-long series of design challenges, […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: meerschaum necklace by mrrko biker chicken by siouxsie-factory, and the gameboy phone bag by maedchenmitherz.
This week on CRAFT we saw: Pool Toss Game Surveillance Camera Cross Stitch Making Your Own Play Dough is Fun
Learn the basics of fiber optics communications while you build this exciting kit. Transmit your voice or 1kHz signal through the fiber optic cable to a fiber optic receiver. Comes complete with all of the necessary components including the PC boards, microphone, speaker and fiber optic cable. Requires (2) 9-volt batteries. More about the Fiber […]
