Free Watchmen Embroidery Designs
Jennifer of Kittyzilla is offering up four designs of Watchmen embroidery patterns that she’s created on her blog. I love the combo of the comic designs with some classic stitching elements.
Year: 2009
Omni rehab
When I was in 10th grade and heading off for a fun time visiting my sister at college, my friend rolled the Dodge Omni 3 1/2 times while driving me to the bus station. My February vacation turned out to be an adventure of a different, more medical sort. That Omni will never get the […]
Open source furniture?
From Wired: Your next piece of designer furniture could cost less than an Ikea chair–as long as you’re willing to make it yourself. Taking a cue from the Linux community and file-sharing services, Berlin-based design guru Ronen Kadushin has started a furniture free-for-all he calls Open Design. It allows crafty consumers to download the instructions, […]
Laser-cut Fruit Bowl
Instuctables user rsablosky made this fruit bowl from pieces of laser-cut bamboo, using the laser mail order service Ponoko and some copper wire.
How-To: Make a Worm Composting Bin
Vermicomposting: Zero Waste = A Vibrant Garden By Wendy Tremayne Daniel Tainow wishes to reunite fungus, bacteria, and invertebrate communities with the human communities of gardeners, eaters, and wearers of clothing. Tainow is the Compost Project Coordinator of the Queens Botanical Garden located in New York. He envisions a future in which there is no […]
Emily Peacock Needlepoint Kits
I’m drooling over the Emily Peacock Needlepoint Kits that Jenny Hart dishes on over at Dinosaurs and Robots. How cute will it be to have a “Kiss” or a “Hug” nearby? You can pick a kit up in Emily’s Etsy store. If you don’t need a whole kit, you can buy just the charts for […]
Rudy Rucker talks to Stephen Wolfram
Our pal, and MAKE contributor, RU Sirius, editor of h+ (Humanity Plus) magazine, sent us word of this interview, by mathenaut and sci-fi icon Rudy Rucker, with Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame, talking about his upcoming Wolfram Alpha search engine. Here’s the intro to Rudy’s interview: Stephen Wolfram has warped my life three times, and […]