Book clock!
Book clock via Reddit.
Month: October 2010
Math Monday: What to Make from Drinking Straws?
Two methods of making geometric models from drinking straws.
Brett Bara’s 45-Pound Owl-o-Lantern
Yesterday, Brett Bara of Manhattan Craft Room, tweeted a pic of the 45-pound pumpkin she picked up at a pumpkin patch. Earlier this afternoon, she shared the awesome carve job she did to turn the massive pumpkin into this rad Owl-o-Lantern. Makes me ready to get out our carving tools and set to work on […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Spooky shoes! by Corvus tristis, Inexpensive Eyeball Wreath by booturtle, Crocheted skull finger puppets by DeweyDecimalCrafts, and Gingerbread Man by jillomatic. Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool prizes. Costumes, decor, food – whatever […]
Cardboard sequencer/synthesizer
This home-brewed instrument uses an Atmega644 and can be programmed through a qwerty keyboard. I love the sweet electroni-singing! [Thanks, Ian.]
New in the Maker Shed: Beginners lock-picking blend set by TOOOL
Discover the inner workings of a mortise and cylinder lock, first developed by the Egyptians over 4000 years ago, with the Beginners lock-picking blend set by TOOOL.
BNC/LED lamp
Russell Jones from New Jersey wrote in with his cool-looking LED lamp: I had a bunch of BNC right angle, straight, and T connectors, so I decided to make another lamp. I didn’t want to purchase anything for the lamp except the polycarbonate diffuser rods, which is McMaster #8571K44. The 5/16″ diameter rods were cut […]