Soft Radiators
Swedish designer Hedvig af Ekenstam makes soft decorative radiators from heating cables; I love the patterns, and her name! [via Fashioning Technology]
Year: 2009
Anna Maria Horner’s Folksy Flannels
I’m drooling over the new Anna Maria Horner line of flannel printed fabrics called Folksy Flannels. Anna’s put together a few bundles in precut stacks that are perfect for upcoming holiday projects. From the site: Good Morning & Good Night are the two cozy palettes that make up the 16 piece collection. Printed on your […]
Mint tin electronics dev kit packs the essentials
From the MAKE Flickr pool Once you’ve caught the ‘electronics bug’, spending time away from the workbench/lab can seem an unpleasant prospect. Luckily, one can carry on learning and experimenting with a minimal amount of hardware. Nick shares his own recipe for ultra-compact electronics prototyping – the Altoids Tin Electronics Lab This is a small […]
LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009
LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009, good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos here…
How-To: Bake a Turkey-Shaped Cake
Bake a Turkey-Shaped Cake By Cathy Callahan How about cake instead of pie this Thanksgiving? I don’t mind pie but am really more of a cake person. This turkey-shaped cake is a fun way to introduce a cake to the dessert table and is also fun for kids to make for Thanksgiving. And if the […]
Vacuum tube prototyping board
Bruce Heran made this prototyping board for his tube projects. He writes: This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test “board.” I do a lot of work with tubes and […]
Building a shop presence notification system
As a member of Hack Pittsburgh, our local hackerspace, one thing I’ve often wondered is if anyone else is there. Well, so did Andy Leer and Marty McGuire, so they decided to build a shop presence notification system.
