Last week we posted about Weaving on the Cheap by Tala at Corvus Mellori. Tala wrote in to let us know she created an improved tutorial for weaving on the cheap that really looks amazing. Tala writes: After finishing my first scarf, I came up with an idea to hugely improve on the initial idea […]
Gareth @ MAKE found this neat little how-to on Instructables for making this vicious little wire scorpion. Rawr!
CRAFT reader Miranda writes: I just got an Amazon Kindle 2, and my husband pointed out that the Kindle is not dissimilar to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the Guide itself, I mean — the book within the books). Hence, my case with large, friendly letters that say “don’t panic”. It’s my own design, […]
Moleskine is offering a new service where they let you print whatever you want on the pages of one of their notebooks. Great for keeping your address book handy without re-writing it every time you get a new notebook. Via Core77.
The Bookbinding Etsy Street Team is participating in the annual International Edible Book Festival this year by hosting an online gallery of literary-inspired edible art. April 1st is the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his book Physiologie du goût, a witty meditation on food. April fools’ day is also the perfect […]
Wired posted a nice article detailing the proliferation of hackerspaces in the US, even mentioning our fair organization in the process – While many movements begin in obscurity, hackers are unanimous about the birth of U.S. hacker spaces: August, 2007 when U.S. hackers Bre Pettis, Nicholas Farr, Mitch Altman and others visited Germany on a […]
The Boss DS-1 is a common and in many ways classic guitar effects pedal, but surprisingly enough, it just doesn’t sound very good. Because of this, you’re likely to find used DS-1s for cheap. Instructable author James Haskin wrote up a step-by-step on how to implement the well-known Keeley Seeing Eye and Ultra mods to […]
