This discussion board is in French, but it’s still fascinating and rewarding enough to scroll through the postings to see the progress pics of this scratch-built SLR camera. Really inspiring. [Thanks, Jacek Tomasiak!] SLR From Scratch
Use Photoshop to bake some cookies! This is a neat stop-motion animation by Maya Rota Klein. [via my class’s blog]
As an organic chemist, my thoughts went immediately to the idea of somehow sticking them together to make giant molecular models. It occurred to me that if you removed the access cover from one sphere you could fit the resulting opening over the surface of another sphere, glue them together, and have something that looked a lot like a space-filling model of, say, methane. So I bought five of the things–four small “hydrogens” and one large “carbon”–and got in the car to go home.
Britnni of Paper n Stitch shows how to put together a simple little pocket size letterpress sketchbook with heavy stock paper and a letterpress card. I love that the technique can really be used with any kind of papers if a letterpress card isn’t available.
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar.
Flickr user llemarie wanted an easy way to upload programs to an Apple I replica computer that he was building, because typing them in by hand was tedious and error prone.
Here are some upcoming craft fairs. Please add any craft fairs that you know of to our online calendar (if they aren’t already there). if you know of a craft fair call for entries. Thanks! Click on the jump to see the East Coast and international call for entries. Coming Up This Weekend: Silverlake Art* […]
