Year: 2010

Slice of Jupiter Scarf

Fellow space geek crafter, Jen Scheer, created this awesome “slice of Jupiter” scarf by crocheting the iconic stripes of the gas giant, felting the scarf and then needle felting the great red spot onto the finished product. I’m in love! Related: Needle Felted Hubble Space Telescope

Snail mail push alerts

Getting iPhone push notifications from objects in your physical world is possible using an Arduino with an Ethernet Shield, a PHP-enabled web server and an iPhone app called Prowl. In this video, I show how to set up a mailbox so that it pings your phone when snail mail is delivered, but it’s very easy […]

How a quartz watch works

This is great explanation of how the piezoelectric effect of quartz is used to keep accurate time. via Reddit The amazing everyday wristwatch: We never think about it, but only because engineers have made it so reliable and durable that we don’t need to. At its heart lies a tiny tuning fork made of the […]