Urban Camouflage actively subverts consumer culture by passively partaking in it. The project was begun in 2007 by Sabina Keric and Yvonne Bayer during their time as students at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design in Sweden. The outfits are inspired by ghillie suits, the camouflage suits of snipers and hunters. I just love […]
One of the hands-down crowd favorites at this year’s Bay Area Faire was Arc Attack, a pair of musical Tesla coils, accompanied by a human band, and lots of twisting, branching arcs of half-a-million volts of electricity that the show’s MC orchestrates from within a Faraday suit. In other words, wholesome family entertainment, Maker Faire […]
By Nicole Vasbinder You can make this dress in about an hour using elastic thread to create shirring (soft gathers), which adds shaping. Elastic thread is super easy to work with but does take a little practice to get right. Definitely practice on some scrap fabric to get the hang of it.
Brett Bara on design*sponge shows you how to sew a colorful pouf which can be a great accent piece for your living room.
Dan on Instructables breaks down some different scraper bike styles for us, providing some methods for getting the biggest bling for your buck. More: Maker Faire: Original Scraper Bikes
LittleDog, the cool, creepily agile robot that Gareth posted about in 2007, has received an upgrade. This is the more advanced version of this robot, created by the University of Southern California. The robot is completely autonomous and trained by machine learning algorithms. The video is real-time, i.e., not sped up. [via The NXTstep]
I am loving the bright, bold colors of this knit log cabin baby blanket by The Purl Bee. It looks like a fun way to knit and work on a baby blanket without getting bored of knitting one single huge piece with the same color of yarn. I must make a note of this wonderful […]
