Pixel art video using candles
Youtube user brusspup, known for his impressive illusions, created this amazing fire animation using a bunch of tea candles, a camera, and lots of time.
Year: 2010
Argyle Giraffe
At Maker Faire Bay Area 2010, Lion Brand Yarn brought their eight-foot argyle giraffe to liven up their booth in Expo Hall, where they were teaching knitting and crochet to eager attendees. Brookelynn Morris chatted with Liz and Zontee and got some more info on how this lovely soft sculpture came into being. Subscribe to […]
Martha’s Fabric Inspired Cakes
Fabric inspired wedding cakes are a great way to share your love of crafting and textiles at your wedding. Martha’s are classics.
Mini fridge food dehydrator
Instructables jamilks converted this old mini fridge into a food dehydrator, great for fruits, herbs, and other healthy snacks! A food dehydrator needs to be warm and breezy, and this how-to uses an old computer fan and hot plate to get the job done.
How-Not-To: Be seen
Justin Shull built this solar-powered terrestrial shrub rover, sort of the diet version of a cupcake car.
How-To: Cookie Cutter from a Can
Insructables user Grathio shows us how to transform an old soup can into a blossom cookie cutter.
Self-playing musical instruments
These MIDI & Arduino-driven musical instruments — a violin and a glockenspiel(?) — were created by Spanish artist Joan Vallvé as part of Sónar, a music and multimedia festival going on this weekend in Barcelona. The “Violà MIDI” and “Metal·lòfon MIDI” are part of the project to design and construct an automated musical environment. This […]