Make and Takes showcases this yummy and easy recipe for leek and goat cheese tarts by Lindsey of Cafe Johnsonia. Lindsey writes: I’ve used leeks and goat cheese here-a classic pairing and very appropriate for Spring. Mix it up and try different cheeses and veggies. Any cheese with good melting properties would be fabulous. You […]
Thimble has a great pattern and tutorial for this cute pleated tote bag, perfect for hauling beach-going supplies or library books. It would make a great weekend project! [via Stacy Sews]
Cheap DIY GFP and DsRED Detection
Nope, it wasn’t a creepy-crawly fetish that got me reading The Worm Breeder’s Gazette. Rather, it was talking to Kathryn Hedges–a smart, passionate, and well-credentialed scientist and artist–about The Gazette’s tips to make a GFP illuminator on the cheap, that made me sure I had to check it out.
We were floored by the number of comments that we got for our Getting Started with Arduino book giveaway (377!). Lots of folks had great questions about the Arduino and some of you pitched in with answers. We’ll sift through this content now and use it to create a crowdsourced Arduino FAQ. Thanks to all […]
I love me a good stew, but mine have always fallen flat; I can never quite get the meat to that golden, falling-off-the-bone stage. This recipe for divine braised lamb shanks finally solved my problem! I don’t have a slow cooker, but I followed the tip at the bottom and stuck my dutch oven in, […]
I held off on “giant,” because, well, there’s really big, and then there’s giant. And, as cool as your Arduino-brained bubble blowing robot is, Instructables user zvizvi, the bubbles it blows are not truly giant IMNSHO. Check out zvizvi’s and the other winning entries in Instructables’ recent Microcontroller Contest.
Sony is jumping into the SDK world and going after all the Kinect hackers out there. After Microsoft’s release of the Kinect, thousands of makers started tinkering on open source drivers/data dumps were released (disclosure, I worked on this with Limor Fried & Johnny Lee). Weeks later, Microsoft announced it would also have an SDK […]
