How-To: Book Strap
This is the coolest book strap I’ve ever seen. Lorraine Teigland of Ikat Bag has a guest post over on How About Orange for making this handy book strap. I love the leather details and, of course, the beautiful fabric.
Month: June 2011
How-To: Create Your Own Snail Habitat
Granted, not every gardener wants snails around, but Erin at Elysian Studios tells a story of how her sons became fascinated by one these slow-moving crawlers and asked, “Can we keep him, Mom?” Erin whipped this snail habitat together, and shares a nice how-to so you can do the same with your kids.
In the Maker Shed: ProdMod LED Video Light Kit
Have you tried taking video using your digital camera but never seem to have enough light? Solve that problem by making your own LED video light using the Prodmod Kit from the Maker Shed.
Crochet Gallbladder With Removable Gallstones
Gallbladder got ya down? I love this crochet gallbladder, complete with removable gallstones, from Etsy seller AnOptimisticCynic. [via KnitHacker]
How-To: Pop Top Lampshade
I am officially regretting every can I have sent to the recycling center without first removing its pop top – because I want to make this gorgeous lamp shade! The design is by MAKE’s own Sean Michael Ragan, and he’s just uploaded the how-to over on Make: Projects. Pop over there and you can view […]
Dog-Mounted Persistence of Vision Display
Michael Zoellner of Elangen, Germany, wrote in with a fun POV he created: Mounting 5 LEDs on a moving object creates one of the cheapest and largest displays: Persistence of Vision. It’s been done on bicycle wheels, fans and other rotating objects. In this project i am sewing a Lilypad wearable Arduino board and five […]
Engineer Guy on Cell Phone Design
Bill Hammack’s video this week explains the constraints that govern the engineering of cell phones, and how and why the development of key technologies has changed the way cell phones look and function. He also shows off the 8pen gestural keyboard app installed on his Android, which I immediately had to download and try for myself. Thanks, Bill, as always!
