Photographing your projects
In this week’s Ask CRAFT column, I fielded a reader’s question about photographing your projects. It’s applicable for all kinds of makers, so go on and check it out!
Year: 2009
Fascination: Heather Lang
Why is Heather Lang fascinated with chess? Though she is a master player herself, her passion lies in coaching others, and helping guide them to the moment where they say “Ah, yes, got it!”. In this video, she talks about running after-school chess clubs to get kids interested in the game. Heather’s interview is the […]
Skateboard Tetris
True that San Francisco skaters have a reputation that precedes them with their home turf being some of the gnarliest urban streets in the country. Check out these 36 SF skaters on Freebords flexing mad skills with neon Tetris shapes mounted on their heads to awesome effect.
Mixing Fibers: Free Knit Pin Cushion Pattern
A common problem when working from the stash, is having only a small amount of each type of fiber left. How can you successfully combine cotton and wool in the same project? How can you combine acrylic with silk? Should you? Would you? Could you dare? (Yes, I totally stole that line from the Spooky […]
Free sample chips available from Microchip Technology
The sponsors of this year’s Halloween contest are giving away microchips! To score some, go here, register, then choose the product line and device family you’re interested in and click on the orange icons to order free samples. From their press release:
Hey Makers in the United States, UK, Germany, France and Italy… We have the exclusive on some great news from Microchip! Beginning Friday, October 2, you will be able to get free microcontroller, analog and memory samples from http://www.microchip.com/samples/. That’s right, you don’t even have to pay for shipping and handling! This is a great opportunity to get some parts for your embedded microcontroller project in the Make: Halloween Contest 2009.
Melting Pot: distributed coffee aroma for teambuilding
The Melting Pot is an older ‘visualizer’ project, however it was way ahead of it’s time. Developed back in 2001 by Itiro Siio and Noyuri Mima, it’s purpose is to bridge the physical distance between a team that is scattered across an office building together by bringing the them together using sweet, sweet coffee.
“How Round Is Your Circle?”
Britons John Bryant and Chris Sangwin have written a book called How Round is Your Circle? that looks incredible. I haven’t read it (yet), but the promotional website by itself has me sold already. Highlights include Reuleaux tetrahedra, square-hole drilling, and self-righting polyhedra.