Spinning LED Ball
This fun project makes awesome light effects by spinning LEDs on three axes. The maker, Carl, doesn’t exactly provide a how-to but he has tons of awesome pictures documenting the project. [Via Hacked Gadgets]
Year: 2010
Ceramic Bowls Molded from Vegetables
Sean @ Make: Online points us to these bowls molded from vegetables by Austrian designers mischer’traxler, which are also colored to match the veggies from whence they came. They call them “reversed volumes.”
Soft Circuit Saturdays at Cambridge Mini Maker Faire
Angela Sheehan runs a site of crafty creations called Soft Circuit Saturdays. She demonstrates lots of neat ways that you can combine circuits with fabrics to entertain all your senses and even protect your tongue. She will be showing her work at this Saturday’s Cambridge Mini Maker Faire from noon to 4pm just outside the Cambridge Public Library.
How-To: Pajama Shorts
Dana of MADE shares a simple pattern for whipping up a pair of cute pajama shorts, perfect for Mother’s Day gifts.
Super Mario Bros. Piranha Plant Sculpture
Jaime Margary sculpted this Piranha Plant for his garden, proving that Super Mario Bros + Sculpey = Awesome.
Desktop AS Whiteboard
Over at Curious Inventor (Atlanta, GA), they were inspired by the whiteboard benchtops at the Freeside Atlanta hackerspace. For $12, they got a 8×4 foot piece of panel board from a home store and turned it into a desktop they can write on.
Leather Tooling Workshop with Paco Collars
Ana Poe of Paco Collars still has space in her Introduction to Leather Tooling class this weekend! Ana wrote a DIY Dog Collar how-to for us in Craft, Volume 10, but now you can get some hands-on help! If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have always wanted to learn how to […]