Cutting designs in carpet with electric clippers works surprisingly well. I used an old pair of clippers, and though the blades were pretty much toast when I was done, they weren’t new to begin with, and they only cost $10 to replace. The actual cutting went pretty quickly.
Each of these coasters by Anders Hansen is a map of a section of Oslo. This project started with my fascination for city grids, from the strict geometry of New York to the seemingly chaotic Bombay structure. At the time, living abroad and feeling a bit homesick, and I decided to use the map of […]
Send @dangerousproto a tweet and their thermal printer will print it! (Watch it live on Ustream for the time being.) This is a soft-launch of our project for the Adafruit/Instructables Make it Tweet Challenge. Weโll have some documentation up on Instructables tomorrow, but we need your help stress testing the system today. Thermal Tweeter is […]
I love clever projects that make me chuckle, like this chair from Fine Diving. [via Decor Hacks]
If you are a .NET programmer with a passion for hardware platforms, chances are you have heard of and used a Netduino. For the rest of us, however, learning both a new programming language and circuit design can be daunting. That is where Greg Duncan from the Coding for Fun Blog comes in. Greg has written several Netduino posts in the past and decided to write something specifically targeted towards beginners.
Andy Paiko does some amazing things with glass. Paiko has painstakingly re-created intricate antique machines almost exclusively out of glass, including a seismograph, a spinning wheel, weight scales, and even a large-scale Ben Franklin-esque glass armonica โ and yes, they all work. Read more about them in MAKE Volume 26! Don’t have it? Here are […]
This is what a felted, gauged ear bracelet looks like. Just in case you were wondering. [via weareallangry]
