Craftsman has a social-media marketing campaign going right now where you can suggest ways to stress test the company’s hand and power tools. The above videos are the first two in the series. Creating these tests was insanely fun — and we’re going to create more. But it would be selfish of us to have […]
Earlier this week, our friends over at BoingBoing pointed to this new variant of the Keep Calm and Carry On meme. It’s a no-brainer for the newly organized crafty space of you knitters, crocheters, and other yarn lovers. The BB post caused the item to quickly sell out, but there’s a poster now available in […]
We’ve seen plenty of human-powered fair attractions, however most of them make use of pedals, levers or perhaps re-purposed bicycles as their interface for locomotion. This one is a bit simpler than that, as the operator just grabs onto the guard rail and pulls, kind of like a vertical roundabout.
Gail of Can’t Stop Making Things shows how you can create your own, customized rub-on letters with your ink jet printer and a few other simple tools you likely already have in your craft space. [via @SisterDiane]
Cabin fever is kicking in, so we figured no time like the present to lay-in some awesome, indoor-friendly projects. To get you in the mood to make, we have new kits, fresh re-supply of our most popular kits, and a juicy sale on everything from necklaces to chemistry sets; finger puppets to Erector sets. Yes, even Arduinos are over 20% off!
GetLoFi shares an interesting method for controlling the popular Atari Punk Console circuit via guitar – The basic idea of this mod is that you are using the volume potentiometer to control the frequency of the APC. Obviously this is not the same as turning the notes played on the guitar fretboard into the APC […]
Posted by YouTuber Adalipu, whose channel contains a number of videos of these “Display2000” modules. This video only shows two modules scrolling a single letter, but a total of ten modules were constructed. There’s more info over on Hack a Day.
