Month: September 2010

Cross-Stitch Solar System Coasters

Be still my beating space-stitchery-geek heart! Heather of Nerdy Needle made this set of cross-stitch solar system coasters after creating charts for each of the planets based on various astronomy images she found online, mostly from the Hubble Space Telescope. Better yet, she’s posted all the planetary cross-stitch charts on her web site for personal […]

Canning Jars by Weck

These canning jars by Weck have beautiful silhouettes that really show off their contents. The extra wide mouths look like they’d be easy to use, too. [via @joeljohnson] More: Book Excerpt: Intro from Well-Preserved by Eugenia Bone Home Canning 101 How-To: Canning Fruit Yep, it’s Fink’s Grape Jelly Book Review + Giveaway: The Art of […]

Trashcan accelerometer

Trashcan accelerometer

Bill R. wrote in to share his trashcan accelerometer that uses an Adruino, an Adafruit datalogging sheild, and a triple-axis accelerometer. The city that I live in provides weekly trash collection services. Customers typically have a 96 gallon trashcan which is left out by the curb early in the morning on a scheduled day. Sometime […]