DIY Easter Egg Wreath
CasaSugar shows you how to whip up this quick and easy DIY Easter egg wreath — just in time for this weekend’s festivities!
Month: April 2010
In the Maker Shed: Diet Coke & Mentos Kit
Recreate the Internet sensation in your own backyard with the Diet Coke & Mentos Kit! Fresh from their performance at Maker Faire, the guys at EepyBird have hand crafted replica PVC nozzles just like the ones they use themselves. Each kit contains a variety of nozzle cuts to give you the coolest, highest shooting geysers. We’ll even throw in a pack of Mentos to get you started (Diet Coke and totally sweet lab coats not included).
Virtual 3D “fish tank” box has screens all around
The brilliant (if perhaps poorly named) pCubee from The University of British Columbia’s Human Communications Technology Lab is exactly what it appears to be–a box with flat screens on 5 sides. Both the user’s position and the orientation of the box are tracked to provide a real-time, perspective-corrected illusion of 3D forms “inside” the box. I want one with an impossible pet inside, like a baby Totoro or something. [via Geekologie]
Literal ribbon cable made with conductive thread
Dan Riley made this textile ribbon cable, which has 8 wires made using conductive thread.
Round-up of coasterbots from around the internet
We’re nearing the end of the design phase of the Make: Robot Build, have you started to draw up plans for your bot?
Wet Felting with Brookelynn Morris
In this Friday’s CRAFT Video, Brookelynn Morris shows us the basics of wet felting. It’s a fun, easy, kid-friendly project to try at home! Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, watch it on YouTube, Vimeo, or download the m4v video. In the Maker Shed: Feltique by Nikola Davidson and Brookelynn Morris More: Meet the […]
Duct tape as a metaphor for life
Check out Kat Jungnickel’s preso on “Technology You Can’t Live Without” which describes the importance of duct tape! I recently completed a sociology PhD during which I spent a year living with a community wifi group and also with a group of freakbike makers. During this research I noticed one particular technology central in both […]
