How-To: Inverted Tomato Planter
Johngineer made this tutorial for creating an inverted tomato planter that can hang on your porch, deck, or patio!
Month: April 2010
Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine Winners
Congratulations to the following winners from our recent Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine. You can see all the entries in the Crafty Chica Challenge Flickr Group. Thanks so much to everyone who entered! Note from Kathy, The Crafty Chica: I am blown away by all the wonderful entries! To me, love shrines are very personal. […]
The Flea at MIT
The Flea at MIT – hope to see some of you there in the coming months! The MIT Radio Society, in conjunction with the MIT UHF Repeater Association, the MIT Electronics Research Society, and the Harvard Wireless Club, sponsors a Swapfest on the third Sunday of each month, April through October. This is a place […]
Speed Vest project build
One of my HacDC cohort, Erica Kane, did the Speed Vest project from MAKE Volume 19. We’re always thrilled when people do the projects in the magazine, document their builds, and share the results with us. Erica details her build on her family blog. She writes in email: As you suggested, I blogged about the […]
We Make Words
As a designer, I am endlessly enchanted by letterforms, especially non traditional ones made from surprising sources. Last year I stumbled upon and fell in love with We Make Words, a fabulous photoblog (or phlog, if you like) comprised of Amy and Luci who state: “We like words. And we like arranging objects. And we […]
Plush calculators
I’m interested in the idea that DIYers out there might be making their own functioning soft-circuit calculators, but there aren’t any that I can find. (Opportunity!) I did find one interesting, albeit non-functional, plush calculator from Flickr user caffaknitted, as well as one more commercial version, both of which are shown below.
New in the Maker Shed: Boe-Bot Robot Kit
The Boe-Bot Robot is built on a high-quality brushed aluminum chassis that provides a sturdy platform for the continuous rotation servo motors and BASIC Stamp’s USB Board of Education. Many mounting holes and slots may be used to add custom robotic equipment or off-the-shelf add-ons.
