Whether or not you’re a Miyazaki fan, you have to admit that these Totoro Mittens are absolutely adorable. I love using the traditional stranded knitting technique from Norwegian mittens to create an image from pop culture. It works perfectly here! The pattern is available free on Ravelry, but you have to have an account to […]
MAKE subscriber Will Pickering sent us a link to this fascinating video. Will writes: This came through one of my steam email lists. Pretty cool plane modified with a 150hp flash boiler steam engine. Made for an almost silent airplane. And it can even go in reverse! From the lengthy YouTube description: A Travel Air […]
Admittedly, the Truth Wrist Band kit will not work on your pets. So if your mutt has been using up all the solder, you might need a different form of interrogation. However, if the culpret is human, this kit will work quite well!
I am ready to admit it: I don’t have a facebook account. But, I do love my twitter and count on it to keep me connected to the craft community. I bet I’d have all the followers in the world if I rocked these adorable stockings from post on etsy, or should I say from […]
Todd Greene is the Los-Angeles-based inventor of the HeadBlade, shown above, which is an ergonomic razor intended specifically for close-shaving of the head, rather than the face. It was chosen as one of Time’s Ten Best Designs of 2000. Greene, who claims to have made millions selling HeadBlades, is one of several inventors and inventing “gurus” featured in this interesting article on CNN.com about the groundswell of ambitious inventing in the United States triggered by the recession.
And you don’t even need a blanket. Ingrid Brandth‘s Daily Shelter transforms into a small playhouse. Feeling safe is not necessarily being safe. We feel protected and secure in surroundings that are familiar to us, where we can control the space around us – physically or psychologically. The Daily Shelter is a table inspired by […]
This morning’s post about remote controls prompted Austrian maker Markus Hirsch to send a link to a project he’s working on: a GameBoy Advance remote control. The project, which is still in development, calls for adding an ATMEL AVR tiny44 microcontroller, an IR diode and an IR receiver to a GameBoy. Basically, the tiny44 and […]
