How-To: Make a trumpet
Our friend Steve Roberts sent us the link to this fellow showing you how you can make a pretty decent sounding trumpet out of a mouthpiece, a length of tubing, and a funnel. [Thanks, Steve!] Guy Makes Do It Yourself Trumpet
Year: 2010
How-To: Fashioning Technology Space Invaders Tote
Our sister site MAKE has a Geek Chic theme in full swing this month. In the spirit of Geek Chic, we just had to offer an excerpt from our favorite book on smart crafting, Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan. This DIY Intro to Smart Crafting is precisely that: it offers everything you need to get […]
Embroidery Explosion
The crafter at Twitchy Fingers was wanting to use up some remnant embroidery floss, and she came up with this! She says she started out trying to make an eye, but it turned into something more abstract. I love it. Especially how all the colors are indistinguishable when they are all coiled together, and then […]
iPhone Controls R/C Model Airplanes
Ari Krupnik is developing an iPhone app that interfaces with an R/C radio. Hope it gets approved by the Apple politburo soon!
Jaime Oliver’s amazing membrane controller
Jaime Oliver’s “Silent Drum” uses a unique elastic membrane drum head as a sound controller. A camera reads the position/shape of the head as it’s deformed with the hands and then translates that into data that can trigger sound events. [Thanks, Alberto!] Silent Drum
Straw Wrapper Rose
Jessica of How About Orange shared a picture of a sweet straw wrapper rose that came on her drink at a Thai restaurant. Determined to figure out how to make one herself, she’s started trying based on a ribbon flower video from Instructables, but wasn’t very successful, so she put a call out to her […]
Simple and beautiful LED-lit sea urchins
The Evil Mad Scientists created these awesome, dead-simple accent lights by dropping an LED clipped across a battery into a sea urchin shell from a beach shop. Windell describes the guts as a “throwie sans magnet.” I love the way these look. But I hereby pledge to dig in, with both heels, and resist the term “urchie” with all my power, unto my dying day.