Instructables and EMSL Arduino contest
Here’s a really open-ended contest from Instructables: just use an Arduino!
Year: 2009
How-To: Sewing Pattern from Packing Tape
You can make a sewing pattern for anything by covering it with packing tape (after putting a protective layer of plastic bag over it), cutting it off into pieces and tracing onto paper. Instructables user megg shows us how while making a cover for her bike helmet.
My people call them maize mazes
Cool post over on Hack-A-Day about corn maze entrepreneur Scott Skelly, shown above with his trusty GPS-enabled riding lawn mower. Scott explains his maize-maze-making process thusly:
A maze starts as nothing more than a large field of corn. The design is created using a computer, then translated into GPS coordinates by fitting it into a field whose outline coordinates were previously captured on foot. Once the field coordinates are reconciled with the map design the data is used in one of two ways; the routes can be made by tilling under a path when the corn is very young, or more commonly it is cut lawn-mower-style when the corn is anywhere from knee-high to full grown. This corn-meets-satellite hack makes for a whole lot of fun!
How-To: One-Hour Softie With Pattern
Jodie of Ric Rac shares a tutorial and pattern for putting together one of these adorable softies in just under an hour. As she mentions, they would be a great offering for Softies for Mirabel!
Bokode at Home
Fascinated by MIT’s Bokode data tag system, maker Matthew Borgatti decided to recreate the effect at home using easy to find materials.
akiba:F Blood Donation Room
Steve writes – Thanks to Danny and Akiyama-San from Good Smile Co. I was able to attend the opening event for akiba:F held today. The official start is tomorrow, but got to look around and see the amazing place today. And they didn’t even poke me with needles! It’s quite amazing and very futuristic. Looks […]
Knit Aviator Baby Hat
When my son Huck was born this spring, the Craftzine team bought him this adorable hat from the Ikeasaurus benefit auction, which was raising money for a sick baby named Ike in Austin. It made me happy to think of one baby helping another. And now Huck’s finally big enough to wear it! The hat […]