Here’s another gift idea for the foodie who has everything! Because surely they don’t have a handmade egg spoon or swivel toaster to use over an open flame … I have a treasured memory of my grandmother and great-aunt reminiscing over a fading fire that those were “the perfect coals for toast.” We take toasters […]
When I’m not getting excited about Maker Faire Detroit or blogging here, I help run the Detroit Urban Craft Fair. We just celebrated our fifth birthday this past weekend and had a great time. To get an idea for some of the great vendors we had, check out this Detroit MetroMix photo gallery. (They snapped […]
RePlayGround turn scrappy materials and other urban detritus into wonderful upcycled projects and products. This Sunday, from 3-6pm, they’ll be turning cardboard, bottle caps, subway passes and other trashy crafts into holiday decorations at a private residence in north Brooklyn. There’s so much trash in this city waiting to be upcycled, you don’t need to […]
ChArLeS from Cambridge, MA, wrote in with his self-balancing scooter. SEGFAULT is a balancing vehicle with a 100% hardware stability controller. Not a single line of code runs to keep the vehicle upright. An analog complementary filter implemented with operational amplifiers combines the outputs of an accelerometer and rate gyroscope and passes it to a […]
By Noelle Corcoran One of my favorite things about the holiday season is looking for new and fun ways to get crafty with decorations. This year, I’ve decided to brighten up our holiday table with some fun and festive embroidery patterns. I’ve made some cloth napkins with them, but the possibilities are endless – from […]
Billed as “a sort of anti-art fair”, the Degenerate Craft Fair returns to NYC and it’s twice as big this year, with over 50 artists and designers selling their wares, with most items in the sub-$50 range. The fair this year will take place at one location, the DCTV Firehouse in the Chinatown district — […]
The new DSO Nano v2.0 from the Maker Shed is a digital storage oscilloscope designed for basic electronic engineering tasks. The Nano features an ARM Cortexâ„¢ M3 32 bit platform, which provides basic waveform monitoring. It has a 320*240 color LCD, micro SD card storage, portable probes, LiPo Battery, USB connection, and signal generator. Perfect […]
