With Maker Faire Bay Area coming up this weekend (May 21 & 22!), it’s the perfect opportunity to share with you some of our favorite crafty spots around the Bay! San Francisco ImagiKnit Address: 3897 18th St., San Francisco, Calif., 94114 Phone: 415-621-6642 Hours: Mon-Sat, 11am to 6:30pm; Sun, 11am to 4pm Website: imagiknit.com From […]
GEEZ! Crafty is Cool’s Allison Hoffman never fails to amaze me with her amigurumi creations! Imagine how excited I was when I saw her pint-size version of Chairry on Pee-Wee Herman’s own Facebook page!
Today we continue our sneak preview of the fabulous folks coming to Maker Faire to participate in the Bazaar Bizarre. Here’s a roundup of artists and designers you can meet this weekend.
Swiss Scientists Design a Turbine to Fit in Human Arteries @ IEEE Spectrum via jwz. Coaches admire athletes for showing a lot of heart, and poets praise the organ’s passions, but engineers see the human cardiovascular system otherwise. The heart is a pump in a prime location, brimming with energy for the taking, says mechanical […]
Our coverage of element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge continues with a profile of BuildBrighton and their fabulous Phonicubes project.
Phonicubes is a super nerdy way of teaching kids to read using the Phonics system. It uses an Arduino Duemilanove, a protoshield, a custom wave shield, and an ID-2 RFID module for a total cost of £81, well under the team’s US$900 budget.
Anything “taco truck” grabs my attention these days. We have a great taco truck here in Detroit, Jacques’ Tacos, that I try to stop by on Saturday afternoons. Just to the south of me in Columbus, Rachel Tayse, of Hounds in the Kitchen, recreated a recipe for one of her favorite taco truck creations from […]
โSous-videโ is fashionable French for a method of cooking that involves longer cooking times at lower temperatures and reduced atmospheric pressures. It means, literally, โunder vacuum.โ Commonly, food is sealed in plastic vacuum bags and cooked at temperatures well below the boiling point of water for dozens of hours, although the particular parameters vary widely with the food to be cooked. The point, really, is that the equipment involved is capable of finer automated control of those parameters than your conventional range, oven, and/or microwave, and the quality and flavor of the natural ingredients can be vastly improvedโwithout sacrificing safetyโby using it.
