Garden Grid
Drew Emborsky aka The Crochet Dude has a great post on how he created his garden grid to better plan the area for his veggies, herbs, and flowers.
Month: April 2010
Arduino on an FPGA
The folks over at Gadget Factory have implemented an Arduino-compatible avr8 processor on an FPGA, called the Butterfly Wiring-Arduino IDE.
Red Hot Jello
I feel oddly compelled to try Ali at Gimme Some Oven!’s Red Hot Jello. I don’t usually eat Jello, and those cinnamon red hot candies aren’t really my bag. But combined together, with applesauce? I mean … it’s just an unknown. I have to satiate my urge to experience the taste! And the texture! Has […]
Flashback: One-Week Wine
With berry season right around the corner, I got to thinking back on Alastair Bland’s One-Week Wine tutorial from the pages of CRAFT Volume 03. Alastair crafted his first batch using wild-harvested mulberries, while bike-touring around the Greek countryside. Doesn’t get much eco-friendlier than that! Read on to whip up your own batch and pick […]
Lattice Works: Turning Trash to Treasure
Every year, the San Francisco City Dump selects various local Bay Area artists for its coveted Recology Artist in Residence program. If chosen, the artists are granted every dumpster diver’s dream: 24-hour access to 44 acres of recycling facilities and public disposal areas — aka the Transfer Station, aka the dump. Each artist is given […]
Owl nest web cam
I lived in a rental years ago that had a water tower on the property. Each year barn owls nested in the eaves of the water tower, and each year my husband and I spent many evenings sitting nearby watching them. We saw babies learn to fly, mother and father swoop in and out with […]
Petri dish monsters!
Los Angeles artist Shing Yin Khor was our Featured Maker about two weeks ago. She’s just added a few more of her trademark Petri dish monsters, which are selling fast. Shown at top is Maurice. Below that, in clockwise order, are Agatha, Lucy, Ed, and Buford. Oh, and Shing herself. She’s the one not in a Petri dish.
