Maker’s Calendar
Our favorite events from around the world.
Year: 2009
MakeShift — To the Bat Cave!
The creator of MacGyver challenges you: find your way out of a pitch-black bat cave using only your wits and what’s on your back.
Blogging Mother/Daughter Craft With Passion, Intensity
If you’ve listened to Diane Gilleland’s Crafty Pod episodes or read her blog for any length of time, you can’t help but also get to know her mother, Pam Harris, of Gingerbread Snowflakes. I’d read about the elaborate gingerbread houses (and sometimes villages!) the two would make together, and when I listened to Crafty Pod […]
TV output from Arduino with TellyMate shield
I like the thought of sending serial print commands to my TV set. This shield, by the awesomely named Batsocks, was designed to do just that. It was originally designed for PAL signals, but has been modified now to output to NTSC sets as well. This would be useful for picture-in-picture mode on a TV […]
Spring Handmade Cavalcade this Weekend in Brooklyn
Head on over to Brooklyn this weekend for the Spring Handmade Cavalcade happening at The Bell House (149 7th St. between 2nd and 3rd Aves.) from 10am to 4pm each day. Shop for gifts for grads and moms! This fair features fantastic housewares and pretty paper goods for hosts and hostesses, as well as apparel […]
Octopus Turtleneck
This octopus wearing a sweater is so cute, I almost can’t look at it. Almost. (Thanks, Patti!)
Homebrew— My RSS Feed Synthesizer
The Bloog is the first in what I hope will be a long line of preposterous wordplay-based machines.