At Maker Faire Bay Area 2010, Lion Brand Yarn brought their eight-foot argyle giraffe to liven up their booth in Expo Hall, where they were teaching knitting and crochet to eager attendees. Brookelynn Morris chatted with Liz and Zontee and got some more info on how this lovely soft sculpture came into being. Subscribe to […]
Fabric inspired wedding cakes are a great way to share your love of crafting and textiles at your wedding. Martha’s are classics.
Instructables jamilks converted this old mini fridge into a food dehydrator, great for fruits, herbs, and other healthy snacks! A food dehydrator needs to be warm and breezy, and this how-to uses an old computer fan and hot plate to get the job done.
Justin Shull built this solar-powered terrestrial shrub rover, sort of the diet version of a cupcake car.
Insructables user Grathio shows us how to transform an old soup can into a blossom cookie cutter.
These MIDI & Arduino-driven musical instruments — a violin and a glockenspiel(?) — were created by Spanish artist Joan Vallvé as part of Sónar, a music and multimedia festival going on this weekend in Barcelona. The “Violà MIDI” and “Metal·lòfon MIDI” are part of the project to design and construct an automated musical environment. This […]
Evil Mad Science Laboratories is having a clock contest! Windell writes: There are probably thousands of cool ways to build clocks based around an LED matrix, and we’ve seen some neat analog and digital clocks based on our Peggy 2 kit. But we’ve also come up with a few dozen other cool ways to show […]
