How-To: Weather paper for prop documents
Tea-staining is the standard darkening method, but Propnomicon’s trick for producing an ancient, time-worn ragged edge is simple, looks great, and is one I hadn’t heard of before.
Year: 2010
In the Maker Shed: Poulsen’s wire recorder kit
Use a wire and the power of magnetism to record your own voice! Record and play back sound on almost any metal that can be magnetized.
Hackers on a Plane heading to Berlin
Want to spend your holiday season hanging out with awesome hackers from around the world at the Chaos Communications Congress?
Rachel Hobson’s Incredible Moon Embroidery
Our resident space geek, Rachel Hobson, poured her heart into this magnificent embroidery piece depicting the highly-textured surface of the moon, and it really shows. She entered the piece in NASA and Etsy’s Space Craft Contest in hopes that it might win and have the opportunity to fly in space. Her embroidery didn’t make it […]
How-To: Modded camera looks at Kinect infrared output
Scanner of books, winner of laser contests, and North Dakota maker Daniel Reetz has plans to turn his Microsoft Kinect into a scanner. His first step? Hack a Canon Powershot A540 to capture light in the infrared spectrum. Of course you can use an IR camera for lots of other fun things, but Dan’s focusing […]
How-To: Knit Star Trek Potholders
These rad Star Trek potholders from Ilana of Off the Hook Astronomy look like they’d be easy to work up and great for holiday gifts. I love the touch of crochet for the border, too. Very fun! [via Geek Crafts] More: Crochet Star Trek Diaper Cover Crafty Star Trek Art Show Star Trek Embroidery Star […]
Fluid Dress is knit from plastic tubing
Fluid Dress 2.0! Lovely video of blacklight-reactive fluid being pumped through the 600 ft of plastic tubing comprising this dress by Casual Profanity. We saw an earlier prototype at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009.
