Here is our weekly listing of upcoming craft fairs. Please add any events you know of to our online calendar, and if you have a call for vendors you’d like listed, please . Click on the jump to see East Coast and international call for vendors. Coming Up This Weekend: Vintage and Handmade Spring Fair […]
From Instructables user skbmo.
San Francisco-based camera hacker extraordinaire Bhautik Joshi just posted a how-to on making your own fisheye lens using a soda can. From his site: Built using a fisheye peephole as the main lens element and a decapitated soda can as the lens body (!), this attaches directly to my SLR camera. For well under US$20, […]
A neat idea from Ian Collins. Make an iPad stand from its own packaging.
By Katie Goodman Spring is the prime time for planting greens and lettuces. One of my favorites to plant is spinach. There are several great benefits of growing spinach. Spinach easily grows in a pot, whatever size you’d like — big or small — which is great for apartment dwellers or people who prefer to […]
I just love Owen Schuh’s Pythagorean Nightmare, an ornate painting machine that mixes the mechanical and electronic. Built from scrap wood and metal, a broken ladder, a hang-glider pole, numerous bicycle parts, a door, used chemistry equipment, solenoid valves, light sensors, an arduino micro-controller, window counterweights, and a non-alcoholic beer. The machine is driven by […]
Benjamin Parker will blow your mind with his origami tessellations. Pictured above is his Light Blue Tessellation, folded from one hexagonal sheet of dyed Zanders Elefantenhaut paper and sewn to a piece of mat board. Based in Connecticut, Benjamin has been making origami since he was 6 years old, and it shows. Check out the […]
