LEGO sneakers
I can’t say how comfortable these might be, but what a great LEGO pair of chucks! More: Cardboard Shoe Show in NYC
Year: 2009
The Knit Kit
Lime & Violet found this knitter’s kit that is due out in March 2009. The Knit Kit includes a crochet hook, scissors, tape measure, stitch counter, thread cutter and a compartment for items like stitch markers. I know I always want more tools, but this seems like the perfect kit for the traveling knitter.
This is the internet … box.
Inspired by a particularly excellent episode of the IT Crowd, Flickr member iamthechad built this device which contains the entirety of the internet … and it has a power switch … which should under no circumstances ever be used! If you’re scratching your head right now, go watch this. – The Internet!
Forget Me-Not: Embroidery Show
Gallery Hanahou presents Forget Me-Not: embroidered love from the new craft movement. For generations, women have expressed love of family through the painstaking art of embroidery … a new generation of embroidery artists using needle and thread to depict love in broader terms, whether idealized and simple or brutal and complicated. Curated by Kristen Rask […]
LCD VU meters bounce pixels instead of needles
Pete from Sparkfun made some digital level meters with a decidedly analog feel. Some op-amps and an ATMega168 on an LCD backpack board make the magic happen. – Let’s first define the problem. I’ve got an AC signal that I need to turn into a simulated needle movement. Where am I going to get the […]
Arduino based Etch-A-Sketch interface
Make subscriber Trevor built a simple drawing interface using Arduino and Processing – There are two potentiometers (horizontal and vertical) plugged into two of the analog inputs of Arduino. The board reads the state of the two potentiometers, and sends them as an ordered pair via USB (technically, it’s via serial, but there’s a built […]
Location-based gaming
I was introduced to Parallel Kingdom today in discussing mobile applications with a few friends. It’s a role-playing game designed for cellphone users that you can play on the iPhone or Android. The gameplay is what you’d expect: killing dragons, teaming up against enemies, upgrading weapons. What’s different is that the environment is a Google […]