Instructables is having a Valentine’s Day contest about tasty sweets: Valentines Day is almost here and one of the best ways into anyone’s heart is with a tasty, sugary treat. Chocolates, mints, cookies, cupcakes, and many other sweets are fantastic ways of saying that you care. We want to see what you make for that […]
You’ve got to love any site that has a dedicated NetHack category: TTYShare is the webservice that allows anyone to upload his/her ttyrec data and to view/share it online. … Since this service is now in beta stage, online tty player is still experimental, and doesn’t support full tty sequences yet. Current player limitations: Support […]
(shown above: the RFID project we’ll be using in Tom Igoe’s Hands-On RFID for Makers workshop) RFID’s are associated with credit cards, passports and inventory systems. However, they can also be used to add a proximity interaction to a service like entering a subway via a passkey (Jan Chipchase has several posts describing these interactions […]
Several years ago, I got into playing the gothic sci-fi tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000. I nearly bankrupted my family (and I’m only half-kidding), with all of the models, supplies, games books, terrain pieces I bought. I got to the point, like any addict, where I was “under reporting” my habit and hiding some of my […]
I love the quaint feel of this Little Red Riding Hood tea cozy. It reminds me of some of the images I’ve seen on Japanese fabric prints. Via Feeling Stitchy.
A friend-of-a-friend made these neat little zipper purses out of old Dorito bags. They are surprisingly robust. I will make it my life’s goal to have her explain how she did it so I can share the process with you.
On William J. Turkel’s Digital History Hacks site, he writes (back in Dec): In December 2004, I bought a copy of Joe Martin’s Tabletop Machining to see what would be involved in learning how to make clockwork mechanisms and automata. It was pretty obvious that I had many years of study ahead of me, but […]
