Recipe: Savory Galettes Filled with Caramelized Onion, Bacon and Brie
You can serve these simple tarts either warm or at room temperature. Either way, the result is a very pleasing and rustic appetizer. (What recipe with bacon wouldn’t be?)
Month: May 2011
Signal to Noise #2 at Museum of the Moving Image
Babycastle’s hacked video games at Signal to Noise #1 – photo by Wendy Moger Bross Signal to Noise returns to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NYC, this Saturday, May 7, with many installations converting electricity into visual and aural stimulation. You’ll encounter hacked Gameboy 8-bit bands (Bubblyfish), augmented reality game shows (The […]
Toner Transfer and Muriatic Acid Etchant: Making PCBs at LVL1
Brad Lyuster of Louisville’s LVL1 hackerspace wrote an excellent guide to etching your own PCBs. A few months ago, the spoiled electrical engineer that I am, I never would have considered making my own PCBs. Any project worth taking off the breadboard was worth sending to China to get made โright.โ Of course, there isnโt […]
Book Review: The Star Wars Craft Book
Happy Star Wars Day, everyone! (As in, “May the 4th be with you”). To celebrate, we’re taking a peek into Bonnie Burton’s The Star Wars Craft Book. It’s packed with adorable and easy projects for kids and adults alike.
Meet The Makers: Nirav Patel
Nirav Patel is literally making things with a wave of his hand. Harnessing a hacked Kinect, he has written a program for “Gestural 3D Printing”. He calls the project “inane and irrelevant” but it is actually a perfect, shining example of creative ingenuity! Nirav, his Kinect, and his RepRap will be at Maker Faire Bay […]
Skeletal Hands Belt
I love the this macabre “Skeletor” belt by designer Delfina Delettrez. Its wide leather band is adorned with two impressively cast silver skeleton hands, and the couture belt has the price tag to prove it. I’m sure the look could be done on the DIY, so what a neat look to think about for this […]
Generational Loss In Housekey Copies
Brooklyn artist Daniel Bejar made a copy of the key to his apartment (hopefully not his current one, because there’s software out there that can reverse-engineer it from the photograph). Then he made a copy of the copy. And then he repeated the process, by my count, 67 times. At which point the copy was an uncut blank. It’s kind of like I Am Sitting In a Room, but with keys. [via Boing Boing]
