Design*Sponge posted about the Oragami Club Web Site this morning, and I found myself being instantly sucked into their massive collection of origami tutorials. The variety of projects and skill level is astounding, and they even have animations to guide you through each fold. I’m also charmed by the names of some of their projects, […]
Our Director of Retail Marketing, Heather Harmon Cochran, sent around a lovely customer email to our internal mailing list in praise of the new Make: Electronics book, including images of this awesome light-up, huggable Dalek. Gareth has the full story on Make: Online.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Sean built a digital weather display with a very analog feel -รฏยฟยผ I took an old clock, removed the mechanism and replaced it with an Arduino (micro-controller) that checks the weather on the Environment Canada website every fifteen minutes and update the hands accordingly. It also has a web server […]
Elizabeth of Oh, Fransson has just announced a Paintbox Quilt ALong on her web site, where she’ll lead participants through making 80, 6 X 6 inch blocks to create a roughly 62-inch by 77-inch quilt. She’s listed the supplies and has posted how to make classic and scrappy blocks, as well as a post with […]
Brookelynn @ CRAFT writes: I have an obsession with graffiti. And dishes. And New York. New York Delft by lovegrove&repucci is making me very happy. These high art tablesettings are surpisingly affordable, at least when compared to other high art tablesettings! More: Homeless Toile de Jouy
The solar dog prototype charger from Erik Schiegg is a solar panel attached to a dog sweater. I’m not sure how efficient it is, but I could see this being handy.
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to get up to go do something, but didn’t want to leave a game for fear your system would go to sleep while you were away and you couldn’t use a software hack to nudge the system? Maker Todd Harrison had a similar issue and decided to build a device that closes a circuit every 25 seconds inside a Wiimote shaped candy tin.
