SparkL Motion, an Arduino-powered ribbon necklace
Jen Savage of Alpha One Labs combined her software and sewing skills to make this SparkL Motion ribbon necklace.
Year: 2010
Easter Egg Surprise Ball
By Jessica Wilson I love Easter! I think it’s because of the baskets… and the eggs. Being an official grown-up and all, I have to be very clever as to how I present Easter goodies to my favorite people. Especially since we usually travel a few hours out of town to spend the holiday weekend […]
How-To: Bamboo electric motorcycle
I love it when school groups make how-to projects. Bay School writes: For our high school senior project, we have created a bamboo electric motorcycle. This project has been extremely fun, challenging, and time consuming; this is not something you can do over a few weekends. The end goal for us was to create a […]
How-To: Use Recycled Materials for Wrapping Gifts
John Boak’s blog Wrap Artist is filled with ingenious ways to wrap items by recycling materials you have around the house from foam meat trays to bottle caps. Pictured above is the recycled-bottle lily wrap where Boak used a kefir bottle and cut off the printed wrap to tranform it into a white lilly. John’s […]
How-To: Bunny Egg Cozies
Khali of Little.Lovely. shares how to make these adorable bunny egg cozies from scraps of fabric and a few simple stitches. [via Book Hour Craft Projects]
How-To: Make a piece of translucent concrete
This tutorial by Instructables user nepheron shows you how to embed ordered optical fibers in cast cement to produce a small lump of concrete that will transmit light. It’s based on Litracon, a commercial architectural material that, I believe, invented the concept. I’ve been considering a very similar “cast your own translucent cinder-block” type tutorial for the Make: Projects series for some time.
How-To: Turkish Borek
Here’s a great tutorial for Borek, a popular fried filled pastry: The general name of this food is “Borek” (also depending on the nationality & language, it’s called burek, byrek, boereg, pirog and some other variants on the name) is a type of baked or fried filled pastry, from Turkey, made of a thin flaky […]