The Crucible Offers Class Discounts to Makers
We got this announcement from our friends at The Crucible. Many thanks to them for offering this deal. We hope that some of our readers will use this as an incentive to take some classes.
Month: March 2011
Sewing For Boys Book
The gals over at Patterns by Figgy’s announced today their latest offering, Sewing for Boys. The book promises the home sewer all sorts of cute options when it comes to making a wardrobe for the little guys in your life. Head over to the site ASAP – they’re doing a pattern giveaway!
Free Folk Art Fish Embroidery Pattern From Andrea Zuill
I always look forward to Andrea Zuill’s monthly free embroidery patterns, and this fun folk art fish for March has me really itching to stitch. We recently moved and are living in a rent house, and most of my embroidery supplies are packed away. I’m horrified to admit that it’s been months since I’ve stitched […]
Crafty Events
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
Getting Started with Arduino Kit V2 Drawing!
We were delighted with the massive response we got to our Getting Started with Arduino book giveaway. So much so that we decided to up the ante. This week we’re giving away the awesome Getting Started with Arduino Kit V2 from Maker Shed. This kit includes the Getting Started with Arduino book, an Arduino Uno […]
Hackerspacer Happenings: Wednesday Edition
Ordinarily I want to just do Hackerspace Happenings posts 1X a week, but guess what? After yesterday’s post I got two intriguing late additions in the mail, too tasty to ignore. Mikey Slkar sent in this one: Cooking With Microcontrollers When – Tuesday, March 15th ( 7 – 11pm ) Where – Quelab ( 1112 […]
Parts Tray + Fruit Wedger Blade = Sorting Parts Tray
I love magnetic parts trays. When I’m taking something apart, using one for the screws and other tiny metal bits is one of the best things I can do (together with taking pictures as I go) to make sure that it all goes back together again more or less as it’s supposed to.
So the last time I was disassembling an appliance for repair (a video projector, in this case), and I was carefully arranging the screws for each subassembly in a separate little pile in my parts tray, it occurred to me that it’d be nice to have a magnetic parts tray with compartments for this purpose. And when I was imagining what the dividers would look like, a shape like the blade of a fruit wedger occurred to me.
For some reason, I have two fruit wedgers. I never use a fruit wedger, but when and if I ever do, I am confidant that one will meet my needs.
So I busted the plastic off ring off of one of them and, with a bit of filing to round the ends of the blades, discovered that the blade assembly fit pretty well into my 4? magnetic parts tray. And actually works pretty well as a divider, too.
