(Photos by: Doug Eng and Shane O’Neill) On March 19th, I had my book release party for Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech at Pop Lounge. It included a fashion presentation of all of the DIY electronic fashions in the book. Here’s a look behinds the scenes of making the DIY projects into a fashion presentation. […]
Image from InsideNikeRunning Did you know that your sneakers are probably the result of a vision of insight at the breakfast table? Maybe you recall wearing shoes that looked like these back in the day. Bill Bowerman, was a successful track coach when he appropriated his wife’s waffle iron one day after breakfast. Bowerman and […]
Amy at Crafty Dame has been enjoying Mending Month here on CRAFT and has shared her tutorial on how to mend a sweater snag. She also has another tutorial on mending t-shirt sleeves by shortening them.
Mr. Rigsby shares his design for an LED flashlight using two 220 farad(!) capacitors in place of all-too-familiar disposable batteries – In this project, you will make a flashlight that works without batteries. Even more amazing, you can recharge it in three minutes and it will run for more than 24 hours. Because the ultra […]
Dot at Dabbled shares a fantastic tutorial for making custom fabric Easter baskets. I love this idea!
Behold! MAKE subscriber Mike Cook brings us the Arduinocaster – Arduinocaster is a an Arduino based MIDI instrument modelled on a guitar sometimes called a keytar. It uses switches and LEDs to control six “strings” which are held down in guitar like chords. Triggering the strings is through an opto reflective switch for a continuous […]
Matth3w’s Swiss AVR Knife conveniently packs several microcontroller projects into a single ATtiny84 chip – Because of the flexibility afforded by microcontroller programming, it also provides a starting point for any number of projects based on LEDs and sound output. The SAK can contain as many programs as the 8K of memory permits and maintains […]
