Month: April 2011

The One-Hour Hat

Late April is probably not the time of year to get interested in designing and making fleece hats, but that’s what has happened to me over the past day or so. The other night, I decided that the fleece hat I’ve worn for most of the winter is too tight, and resolved to make my own. Sewing is new to me, and I’m trying to build my skills with this ancient craft and learning how to use my recently acquired sewing machine. As I’m doing this and other projects, one of my goals is to develop classroom projects for my high school students. The slideshow above shows the photos documenting the process of creating one hat.

Personalized Cotton Candy Maker

Personalized Cotton Candy Maker

From the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user usopyon and friends created this internet-enabled cotton candy machine. It consists of an Arduino-powered colored sugar mixer, which dispenses measured amounts of pink, green, and blue sugar to create a uniquely colored puff of cotton candy for each user. Yum!