I am smitten with these wee ears of corn that Shawnee of Life With Monkey stitched onto a wool beret. She revamped the beret with some bias tape to keep the edges from being itchy when worn, and then added these sweet, unexpected embroidered accents to finish the upcycle. I’m a sucker for a cluster […]
Another helpful approach to soldering those itty-bitty surface mount chips – Raul used good old stripboard, cutting copper at a few key spots to form a relatively simple breakout board for his 1Mbit EPROM. Now he just needs some data to store on it.
I’ll preface this post by saying I’m definitely not an advocate for using this hack, but if you find yourself getting knocked off by an invisible opponent, at least you’ll know what might be going on. A lag switch is a device that causes a network disruption during online gameplay to the benefit of one […]
Make:NYC Meeting 11 – Thursday February 26th, 6:30PM NEW LOCATION We got a great new space for our twelfth meeting! Let’s see if we can fill it! Lab: I’m on a motherf&*%ing BOAT! Build yourself a boat using composite techniques! See if you can set sail without going down to Davey Jones’s Locker. We’ll give […]
Wow – each Handmade Music Night is turning out to be its own unique experience. Last night at 3rd Ward the event featured an excellent performance by Electric Junkyard Gamelan. Terry Dame, the group’s instrument maker, uses a wide variety of creative inventions to give the band its unique sound and presence. Clay pots, rubber […]
Via BB, artist Eiko Ishizawa made this bear sleeping bag/soft sculpture. It just looks so… comfy!
When these images showed up on Gizmodo, Oh Gizmo! and then started making the email rounds, long-dormant neural pathways lit up like a 60s Christmas tree, the kind with bulbs so big and hot they could roast chestnuts. It was under such a radiant Christmas tree that I found that exact same Mattel Vac-U-Form kit […]
