How-To: Mini Cardboard Tombstones
Looking for a little way to add a big scare to your Halloween decor? Sheila from Cheeky Magpie shares instructions and printable templates for putting together these mini tombstones.
Month: October 2009
Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano
Possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen. A work by Austrian composer Peter Ablinger. [via Neatorama]
Sewn Paper Party Streamers
I love what Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane has done with these paper party streamers to make them extra special. She’s sewn and ruffled them in multi-color strips. Fantastic! Another reason I like these is streamers in general are thought of as disposable. They are thin, cheap, and rip easily. But when sewn like […]
RepRap Version II “Mendel” prints its first 3D parts
The newest RepRap, RepRap Version II “Mendel”, will be released very shortly. Here is a video of it working. It is both bigger and smaller than RepRap Version I “Darwin”: it can make bigger things, but the machine itself is physically much smaller.
Vampire and/or werewolf hunting kits
Everybody’s favorite Xeni recently linked to this cool collection of slayer kits from around the web. Many of these are antiques and have sold for large sums at major auction houses, but I remain dubious as to how serious anyone ever really was about the whole business. [via Boing Boing]
How-To: Loop-back shoelacing
Here’s yet another fun way to lace your shoes using the loop-back method, if you’re tired of the way you’ve got ’em now!
Soft Circuit Zipper Communicators
Jai Yi Lin made these networked zipper communicators for two far-away people to share how much they miss each other with a zip zip and an LED meter. [via Fashioning Technology] In the Maker Shed: Lilypad E-Sewing Kit