How-To: Tab Top Kitchen Towels
Mara of Klieo’s Belly shares a pattern and instructions for taking store-bought kitchen towels and adding a hand tab top to them for easy affixing to the stove door handle.
Year: 2010
Lost Knowledge: “Artistic Printing”
Rediscovering a gorgeous, short-lived Victorian-era style of letterpress printing.
10 Sci-Fi Weapons that actually exist @ Wired’s Danger Room
10 Sci-Fi Weapons that actually exist @ Wired’s Danger Room… Sure, the gear may look like it came straight out of Avatar or Battlestar Galactica. But all of the laser weapons, robots, sonic blasters and puke rays pictured here are real. Some of these weapons have already found their way onto the battlefield. If the […]
Maker Birthdays: Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 (died March 31, 1727). While this astoundingly-talented English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and natural philosopher is clearly one of the most influential scientists in human history, most of what’s generally known about him is more iconic/symbolic than real (think: countless Saturday morning cartoon depictions of apples falling on […]
DIY diamond chop saw
Need to cut tiny parts, and don’t have access to a commercial wafer dicing machine? So did amateur radio enthusiast Tony, who needed to cut small pieces of 50 ohm microstrip lines for a 47 GHz radio he is constructing.
Stretch-Sensing Bracelet
Today I’m at the MIT Media Lab meeting with some of the most awesome folks in wearable technology, including Hannah Perner-Wilson, a grad student in the High Low Tech research group. She made the above stretch-sensitive bracelet, which uses conductive thread and resistive yarn to make an LED light up when the bracelet is stretched.
Make: Electronics: “Teaching at its best!”
Make: Electronics enjoyed some tremendous holiday sales. We’re thrilled by the reaction it’s gotten so far. It’s currently the No. 1 bestseller in three Amazon categories: Circuits, Robotics, and Robotics and Automation, and #4 in the main Electronics category. It got written up on Boing Boing, Wired’s GeekDad, and elsewhere, and the Shed ended up […]
