Cathe Holden has a tutorial up on Country Living’s web site on how to make a Shrinky Dink bracelet which showcases her collection of vintage ephemera. Don’t worry if you don’t have vintage clip art lying around, the project includes two PDFs with 34 pre-sized vintage images for you to use! [via Twitter @modpodgerocks]
Teacher, paper engineer, and artist Matt Shlian created these stunning sculptures from paper. Reminds me of a single-color Jen Stark! [via Cool Hunting]
The clever copy some bright marketeer wrote for SparkFun’s Heaterizer XL-3000 is turning into a pretty awesome viral advertisement for the product, and for SparkFun itself. [via Boing Boing]
Instructables user uniqueutopia writes: We have been introducing mushroom cultivation as a nutritional supplement and cash crop for Afghanistan’s landless poor
If you’re looking for a small oil cloth project to either use up some scraps or try your hand at sewing with oil cloth, check out this tutorial for making a pencil case from Liz at Momtastic. Bonus: you’ll also get practice putting in a zipper! [via Oilcloth Addict]
The 6-in-1 Educational Solar Robotic Kit is an excellent beginner building kit designed to teach how solar power is used to drive a small motor. Kids use the 21 snap-together parts (no tools required) to build 6 different working models including an airboat, car, windmill, puppy, and 2 different airplanes. Solar building kits teach children […]
Alpay Kasal, who helped create Alpha One Labs‘ Twitter-searching Christmas tree, has a new project: a touchscreen mirror. thought to build this version of the Interactive Mirror after I saw some dielectric glass mirrors with LCD panels built into them. They’re meant to be the bathroom of the future, complete with news and weather to […]
