Heart Embroidery
Andrea Dezso is an artist in a wide variety of media (animation, sculpture, book design, fibers), and while her heart embroidery from 2004 isn’t new, it is certainly impressive. More: Pricked: Extreme Embroidery
Month: October 2009
Free Sock Bat Doll Pattern From Heather Bailey
Heather Bailey has created a free pattern for this cute bat doll that’s made from a sock, wool felt and scraps of fabric.
Robot Zombie Cat saves Halloween
I had these grand plans of completing my levitating baby head, I even started about a month ago, but even with such an early start, there just doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. Enter Robot Zombie Cat!
How-To: Yoshi and Mario Toddler Costumes
Instructables user craineum made these really incredible Yoshi and Mario costumes for his toddlers. You may remember him from last year’s Mega Man costume. Those are lucky kids! I remember one year being Tweety Bird, and my mom made a similarly large mascot-style piece of headgear. Who needs peripheral vision when you’ve got candy? More: […]
Hacking the Force Trainer
Zibri did some investigative hacking with the Force Trainer (brainwave controlled toy) and posted a basic interface schematic using a MAX3233 to interface with his PC via serial. It turns out the EEG headset is sending out data as ASCII characters @ 57600 baud – should make for some quick and easy hacking! Time to […]
Vintage Thread Bird Nests
Remember the fantastic vintage spool advent calendar from Cathe at Just Something I Made a couple of weeks ago? She’s back to share how she used the discarded thread from the spools to make a collection of colorful bird nests!
Get the upcoming MAKE, Volume 20, for $14.99, shipped!
You know how, on those reality romance shows, every week, they say: “Get ready for the most exciting rose ceremony, ever!” Yeah, we don’t know anything about that either, but that’s what we hear they say. Anyhoo… we probably sound the same, heralding each issue of MAKE as the best, most exciting issue EVER! But […]