Remember Heidi? She entered our Me, My Scarf, and I contest with her rad couch scarf and flapper hat made from a men’s shirt, and now she’s back to show us how over at Instructables. More: Me, My Scarf, and I Contest: Couch Scarf Me, My Scarf, and I Contest Winners
Reader Craig Smith sent me an email about this recent little fix he discovered for time-worn cassettes: I was in my basement shop when I found a box of cassette tapes that were the soundtrack to my youth. Since the seldom-used tape deck was removed from the upstairs entertainment center, I set it up in […]
This light bulb Valentine over on Design*Sponge is just the thing for my sweetheart! He’s obsessed with energy efficiency, so this seems like the perfect reuse for a defunct light bulb (which will be replaced with a CFL!) as well as a spark for some fun wordplay (“You’re the Light of my Life”? “Wire You […]
Most home workshops have you looking at garage walls or cement bricks. Mark Tilden, father of BEAM robotics, built himself a sweet setup high above the streets of Hong Kong. Having spent most of my lab life staring at basement walls or security bars, recently sorted myself a home lab 600 feet high overlooking Kowloon […]
Nomad of Static Painting produced these awesome Road-Warrior-meets-Toto mashup minis. The figures themselves are available from Studio Miniatures. As an encore, might I suggest The Wizard of Oz gang as characters in the HBO prison drama Oz? Or vice versa? [via Neatorama]
These cute mascots are all about cheering on the actual Winter Olympics, but they also could serve as inspiration for the Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is challenging knitting “athletes” to push themselves to the limit of their abilities and to take up a new knitting project that they can complete in 17 days. […]
HacDC’s (Washington DC’s premier hackerspace) next Lightning Talks evening will feature an eclectic lineup of a dozen five-minute talks on anything and everything that’s pressing on the minds of today’s thinkers and tinkerers, from rapid boat construction to innovative DIY manufacturing. The talks run about 90 minutes total. There are currently several speaker slots still […]
