Awesome little needle-felted dragon
By deviantART user ~tallydragon. [via CRAFT]
Year: 2009
How-To: Tank Top Totes
Monica from Crafty Nest shares how she transformed tank tops into stylish tote bags. She includes two different versions: a gathered tote and one with multiple pockets.
Autobots invade Cleveland yard for Halloween
Pretty amazing yard art by YouTuber koUNit1. [via Geekologie] Make: Halloween Contest 2009 Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Spooky projection mapping
This projection mapping video by Telenoika at the Ingravid Festival in Spain is totally mindblowing. The video is long, but worth it. Made using OpenFrameworks.
Pictures from Plush You! 2009
Kristen posted up pictures from this year’s Plush You! show in Seattle at Schmancy, and it looks so great! If you’re around Seattle, be sure to check out the show through the end of October!
Behind The Scenes of The Michael Miller Quilt Market Booth
There have been some great wrap up posts from the Houston Quilt Market floating around the craft blog circuit. One of my favorites, though, is this behind the scenes look at the production of the Michael Miller booth, which took home the Creativity Booth Award. It’s an interesting look into how they went from concept […]
GPS-enabled puzzle box opens only at Île-de-Bréhat, France
The first presenter at last Thursday’s Dorkbot Austin was a gentleman named Mikal Hart, who described his “Reverse Geocaching Puzzle.” Designed and built as a wedding gift for an old friend moving to France, the box incorporates an Arduino with a custom shield. A prominent button on the lid, when pressed, returns a distance, in kilometers, on the LCD display (if a GPS signal can be acquired), and counts button-presses up to 50 atttempts. No directional information is provided, so the box must be moved about in order to triangulate the location it wants. Mikal also included a cunningly-disguised back door to allow it to be opened in the event of battery failures or bugs.
