How-To: Pocket Watch Photo Album
I love this novel photo gift idea from Destri of The Mother Huddle. She shares how to convert an old pocket watch into an accordion photo album. This would make a sweet and unique Father’s Day gift!
Month: June 2011
Muze, an Arduino Music Maker with Evolving Melodies
Joshua Maruska and Adam Kumpf from Teague Labs created an interesting Arduino-based musical instrument called Muze, which synthesizes evolving melodies. According to their site, they’ve “educated Muze with a palette of notes that it can in-turn interpret and compose into various rhythms and phrases that are strung together to form something musical.” The user is […]
Hackerspace Happenings: Road Show & Two Hands Project News
Make: Live — Hackerspace Roadshow Make: Live featured four spaces in its last show, including the Hack Factory, i3detroit, Milwaukee Makerspace, as well as Noisebridge. Love seeing all those projects — and very impressive spaces, guys! Two Hands Project Footage on Archive.org Footage from the Two Hands Project, a hackerspace documentary, has been put on […]
How-To: Turn Pencil Grips Into Jewelry
Mich L. in L.A’s blog is always filled with interesting ways to turn dollar store items into jewelry components. In this tutorial, she cuts silicone pencil grips into sections and uses them to make lots of cute earrings, bracelets and pendants. Very modern-looking!
Toolbox Review: iMSO-104 Oscilloscope for iPad & iPhone
Osciumโs iMSO-104 hardware offers to turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a 12MSPS digital oscilloscope with an analog bandwidth of 5MHz. For folks like me with limited desk space & shifting work environments, that’s an interesting offer indeed. Oscium sent over a test model to take for a spin, so onto the spinning!
Highly Designed Storage on ShoeboxDwelling
I could spend hours gazing at all the wonderful design pr0n on ShoeboxDewlling. Dedicated to “finding comfort, style and dignity in small spaces”, this great blog is all about attractive, modern, solutions. It’s populated with timeless pieces like the lovely modular Citti storage featured above. And while everything shared looks like it could grace the […]
Skillshare: Teaching in Your Community
Image by Amber Karnes, via Flickr If you’re looking to add a new income stream to your craft business, teaching classes in your local community might be a good option. Skillshare is an online community marketplace for offline classes. You can scope out a teaching location in your community, and then submit your class idea […]
