Image by Hanna Andersson Here’s a fun story of crafters coming together over a common love. It began when Carina Envoldsen-Harris, Kathryn Sterrenberg, Hanna Andersson and Pam Harris all realized they shared a certain obsession with Dala horses. Image by Carina Envoldsen-Harris From Carina’s Blog: “I love that Swedish icon, the Dala Horse so much […]
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Aaron Amatnieks, aka Flickr user akama1_lego, built a Lego dragon that breathes real fire! A tricky proposition when your medium is a polystyrene copolymer that melts at a temperature below the boiling point of water. A butane lighter has been fully incorporated into the structure, including a mechanical start-lever disguised as a rocky crag on the back side of the mountain.
Continue ReadingWhen I was a little kid, I would get unreasonably excited when I knew that the Tooth Fairy was coming. The rush of losing a tooth—probably in school, where I’d get to show it off all day—coupled with the possibility of seeing an actual fairy was almost too much. I think that this adorable Tooth […]
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The Aeromodeller II project is a design for a zero-emission, autonomous, nomad hydrogen-based airship that will never land. The ship regenerates its fuel, creating hydrogen from wind power and the rain on its skin. When it depletes its energy reserves, the ship needs to drop anchor and rest, in order to replenish its energy in […]
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Ever wonder what kind of information gets stored on your cell phone’s SIM card? Find out with the SIM Card Reader / Writer Kit from the Maker Shed! Build the kit, then use the accompanying software to read and write from the card, to back up stored SIM card data, recover deleted SMS text messages and phone contacts, examine the last 10 phone numbers dialed, and more. Also works on some smart cards.
Continue ReadingKristen of New House Project was inspired by a Sheila Hicks piece at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and created this cool wrapped necklace. See how simply it comes together over on her blog. Related: How-To: Wrapped Bracelets
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“Profile Pictures” is a series of remarkable embroidered works by Carolyn Marsden (Warning: some material on her site may not be suitable for younger readers) which, presumably, depicts pictures of men from dating website profiles with biting observations written underneath them. Utilizing a medium with such a weighted past, my work shows moments of my […]
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