Artist Mary Yeager creates female merit badges. She says My female merit badges illustrate female “rites of passage” as well as the myriad physical manipulations women undergo to achieve cultural ideals of beauty, such as weight watching, whether or not to shave or wear makeup, etc. I’ve created tiny replicas of female products, such as […]
Swiss Miss spotted this paper heart and ribcage that would be a sweet gift for someone for Valentine’s Day.
Curbly shows us how to turn an outdated thrift store ottoman into a stylish showpiece with the help of wood stain and new fabric. [via One Pretty Thing]
This looks like a handy library for mobile-enabling your next Arduino project: This library implements the Software serial Arduino library to establish a serial connection to a Mobile phone. The methods methods hides the AT+ commands from the user allowing messages to be sent by passing the method on a phone number or email and […]
Tufts University has a really good book available online about the physics of music and musical instruments. It’s a nice balance between theory, examples, and hands-on projects. The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments covers the physics of waves, sound, music, and musical instruments at a level designed for high school physics. However, it is […]
Here’s another Make: Books PDF excerpt. This one comes from the Best of Instructables, which is a compilation of some of the most amazing projects from Instructables, the world’s biggest show and tell. This excerpt is kind of special to us. In it, former Make intern Jacob McKenzie riffs on a project by Gareth Branwyn, […]
World of Whimm shows us how to create these quick and easy folded paper hearts to decorate for Valentine’s Day. [via The Crafty Crow]
