What time is it? If you live in the North East, it’s time to shovel! Then again, maybe it’s time to stay inside and make something? I built the Gakken Edo-Style clock kit from the Maker Shed last week, so now I’ll always know the time. The kit doesn’t include English instructions, but it does […]
Melodie and Brenton from Garden Melodies created this incredible gingerbread recreation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Fun facts: It took over 12 hours to design It took Brenton and I around 40 hours to build and decorate There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that’s […]
Bagleemo shows us how to modify the Gakken Mechamo Inchworm to make it crawl upside down along a string with some wire coat hangers and rubber bands. He dropped a comment about it on our Inchworm build. Nice work! In the Maker Shed: The Gakken Mechamo Inchworm kit is available through the Maker Shed.
Malmö, Sweden hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen (“The Research Department”) celebrated the holiday with a little gingerbread, laser etched with some excellent ASCII art… and their founding date in hex, oh yeah!
Saeki Yoshiyasu’s iPod Touch-controlled LCD uses a WebSocket server and an Arduino to connect. Su-weet!
I’ve been going through our the blog’s “green” archives this weekend for a best-of roundup this week. In case you’re giving any last-minute holiday gifts, check out this post from April showing off plantable gift tags. It’s the gift that keeps on giving!
My pal, Becky, who’s a fellow instructor at the Stitch Lab here in Austin whipped up this adorable crochet window pane scarf over the holiday and is sharing the pattern on her blog. I love that it’s warm and cozy enough for the chill we’ve been experiencing here this weekend, but also still open enough […]
