Check Out Calligraffiti
What happens when you mix calligraphy and graffiti together? This! Via Lizz Linabury
Year: 2010
Sewing Machine Amigurumi
Knithacker posted a link to an awesome radio amigurumi from flickr user, patribanez, this morning. As I was checking it out, I noticed her “related” link to this fantastic sewing machine amigurumi by the same artist. I love this combination of two awesome crafts in one project!
Electric carving knife + router table = DIY upholstery foam saw
And quite an effective one, two, judging by this video from YouTuber Designbyg. Rain Noe, who brought us last week’s build-your-own-couch post over on Core77, compares it favorably to a $200 professional upholstery foam saw.
Giant Monkey Sculpture Made from Flip-Flops
Fat Monkey is a sculpture by Florentijn Hofman made of flip-flop sandals made as part of the Sao Paulo art and design conference Pixelshow. A little digging on Flickr reveals this in-progress shot, showing the underlying inflatable structure. [via Geekologie]
How-To: Custom Coffee Sleeve
Lisa over at Polka Dot Cottage studio shows you how to measure out and create a custom-fitted coffee sleeve that not only makes your mug stylish and more environmentally friendly, but can also be used to cover up not-so-fabulous unsightly logos on freebie mugs.
How-To: Preserve a Candy Portrait
Andrew Salamone follows up his now-famous Nerds portrait with a project for CRAFT on preserving candy portraiture: Let’s say that you were overzealous with your Halloween candy purchases this year (or maybe trick-or-treater traffic was down in your neighborhood) and now you have a big bag or two of candy that you don’t really want […]
Weather balloon space probes in MAKE Vol. 24
For MAKE Volume 24 I had the good fortune to be able to write about a very cool phenomenon that has exploded in the maker scene — geeks launching their own weather balloons into the stratosphere, carrying coolers packing cameras and sensors. To be sure, these recent launches are not revolutionary, hams have been launching […]
