200lb octopus cake
Karen Portaleo/ Highland Bakery’s 200lb octopus cake via jwz. Check out the gallery, amazing!
Year: 2010
How-To: Accordion Folded Starbursts And Medallions
These awesome accordion folded starbursts and medallions from Sara of Creative Jewish Mom are bright and beautiful and would be great party decorations or for a simple way to add a bit of color to your home decor. See how to make them over on her blog.
Hand lights — Cool Tools contest winner
Cool Tools ran a DIY Contest. The winner was Steve Hoefer and his “Hand Lights:” There are tons of head mounted lights to light your work, but they only put light where you point your head. And when your viewpoint and your lighting are close together everything appears flat with little or no shadow. Enter […]
Webcam + CNC robot = high resolution scanner
Tormach wants to sell you an upgrade package for your Mach3-compatible CNC robot that includes a 1.3M USB microscope with 220X optical magnification, a mounting bracket, and all the necessary software to turn your CNC equipment into a scanner. The cool part is they’ve also produced a video showing how to hack together a slightly-less-powerful system using a $20 pen cam and some free software that will let you make 2000 dpi scans limited only by the size of your CNC bed envelope. The “killer app” for this equipment is automatic reverse-engineering of parts, but you could also use it to easily scan maps, posters, artwork, or other oversize stuff. [via Hacked Gadgets]
A Crafty Wedding Shower
Somehow after Maker Faire Detroit I went into full-blown crafty wedding mode, thanks to two great pals getting hitched this fall. For fellow Handmade Detroit member Stephanie‘s upcoming nuptuals, we decided to host a non-wedding wedding shower packed with crafts, boys, and local beer. Taking up shop at one of our favorite hangouts, here are […]
How-To: Musical Drawdio Puppet
By Angela Sheehan Conductive fabric/thread and a few electronic parts transform this seemingly ordinary plushie into a fun, playable instrument. This octopus jellyfish-inspired puppet lets you make different squeaky sounds using an embedded Drawdio. Hold the puppet by putting one hand in the loop on its belly. Use the other hand to touch conductive spots […]
MakerBot Cyclops 3D scanner
MakerBot Industries’ autumn of innovation continues (their Automated Build Flatform made a lot of fans happy) with this neat 3D scanner framework: The Cyclops is a three-dimensional scanner mount made fit for a pico projector, a webcam, and an optional iphone/ipod. Using a method called Structured Light 3D scanning, common and available components that fit […]