High-Fashion Urchin-Proof Wetsuit
Fashion designer Alba Prat designed this laser cut neoprene number. I bet it smells awful, as plastics often do when you burn them, but hey, it looks awesome. [via Fashioning Technology]
Month: November 2010
In the Maker Shed: Arduino Nano 3.0
The Arduino Nano 3.0 is a surface mount breadboard compatible version of the ever-popular Arduino micro controller. It’s small, has integrated USB, and is breadboard friendly. It has more or less the same functionality of the Arduino Duemilanove, but in a different package. Physically, it’s missing the power jack, but it can still sense and […]
Mike Hord’s mobile toolboxes
Electrical engineer Mike Hord says “if you can’t find it, you don’t own it.” Acoordingly, he has organized his portable component kit and tool kit. He has every tray of his toolboxes photographed with callouts and explanations giving you the 411 on everything he carries with him. Owning an object has a cost, however minor, […]
How-To: Mini Matryoshkas
April of Sew to Speak shares a pattern and tutorial for making these sweet miniature matryoshkas. The step-by-step pictures are really cute, and it’s fun to see the dolls take shape. I think it would be nice to gather a group of friends and some felt scraps and whip up a bunch of these little […]
Smartphone binder clip tripod mount
Thanks to maker DannyBR, with the addition of a quarter-inch hole, the ever useful binder clip has acquired a new talent: smartphone tripod mount.
A pleasant afternoon of manual typewriting?
Announcing the first Philadelphia Type-IN A Pleasant Afternoon of Manual Typewriting Long before the laptop or the mainframe, writers, reporters, and bureaucrats alike relied on the typewriter to get the word out. Today, only a few companies make typewriters—but thousands of classic Remingtons, Underwoods, and Olivettis are still around, waiting to be dusted off. Just […]
Sci-fi models made from kinder eggs
Amazing scratch-built steampunky/WH40K-like retro sci-fi models, built with kinder eggs, straws, and bits o’ fluff. Kinder Krieger Mark II
