HOW TO – Lightning Knit Dress from Secondhand Sweaters
OutsaPop Trashion posted instructions for how to make these lightning knit dresses from secondhand sweaters on Cut Out + Keep.
Year: 2009
Hello Blink!
Everybody seems to be messing with Arduino lately. So today was my chance to give it a go. Jimmie Rodgers of Willoughby and Baltic helped me set up the software on my laptop at Noise Night. It was incredibly easy, and he helped me to understand that the IDE for the ‘regular Arduinos’ is different […]
HOW TO – Breadboard breakout for leadless chips
Here’s an interesting strategy for accessing the tiny pin contacts on no-lead QFN chips using temperature resistant tape and a conductive pen. Starlino’s example intentionally bridges several pins but theoretically should work for accessing all of them individually (considerable patience required, of course) – Reverse Surface Mounting of small leadless SMD components [via Curious Inventor]
Star-shaped mystery synth
Califaudio points out this rather unique synth designed and built by Mr. Skot Wiedmann. It’s inner workings remain a bit of a mystery as its maker only specifies it being an analog/digital hybrid with feedback circuitry … and a whole lotta banana jacks. Well no matter what’s inside it looks quite killer. Visit Skot’s site […]
Owls Sweater Pattern
I have no idea how I missed this beautiful owl sweater from last year. Kate from Needled who designed the sweater has the pattern available for free download. via Crafty Crafty.
Chinese farmer’s walking creations
National Geographic interviews Wu Yulu, a chinese farmer obsessed with building walking machines. Wu was ridiculed for a long time because of his mechanical creativity, but recently has gained recognition for his self-taught skills after being named China’s most innovative farmer. Over the years he’s managed to construct some pretty awesome automatons from salvaged materials. […]
HOWTO – use Amazon EC2 for Bittorrent
Brett O’Connor wrote an informative article on using Amazon’s EC2 service to host a Bittorrent client. For an estimated $75/mo, he can feed his torrent addiction without impacting the bandwidth on his local network. For me, at home, trying to maintain my ratio has caused big problems for my evening Left 4 Dead sessions, and […]
