Jessica of How About Orange shares her take on the traditional Polish Porcupine Ball with this tutorial for a modern paper ornament. You could make them in all different kinds of colors or patterns of papers, and they make great decorations for a Christmas tree or just general decor.
Karla writes: This is a tutorial on how to create my pearl necklace piece from 2009. It is a simple project that can be done while watching tv or talking with friends. It is somewhat time consuming, each pearl taking between 5 and 10 minutes. Your hands will also become pruned from being wet for […]
The Pixel Qi screen from the Maker Shed is a revolutionary LCD display technology for your netbook. This one-of-a-kind, plug-and-play 10.1-inch display offers two modes–an easy-to-read, real color, multimedia mode, or a crisp low power e-reader mode. The e-reader mode has 3 times the resolution of the fully saturated color mode, allowing for a high […]
Interesting paper from Neel Joshi, Sing Bing Kang, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Richard Szeliski at Microsoft Research, describing how they mounted 3 gyroscopes and a 3-axis accelerometer on a DSLR to record the camera’s motion while a picture is being taken, and used that data to automatically deblur the resulting image at the software level. From their abstract:
Not much detail, but I love the look of this handmade TV-B-Gone Flickr user nausk! submitted to the MAKE Flickr pool.
Make your Christmas tree crafty with this fun knitting ornament project from Pam at Gingerbread Snowflakes. Grab some scraps of yarn and wood skewers and you’ll be able to create this cute crafty ornament in a matter of minutes.
Artist Chris Burden and a crew of eight assistants are in the midst of erecting his latest work, titled “Metropolis II”. Consisting of 1,200 custom die cast cars cycling across 18 lanes, Burden claims that 100,000 cars circulate through the miniature cityscape every hour.
