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.
Kristen 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
“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 […]
Here’s an extremely innovative idea from Yi Lu and Yu Xiang at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, just published in Nature Chemistry. Medical demand for home blood glucose monitoring equipment has led to the development of inexpensive, accurate, and widely available electronic instruments that can measure glucose levels in blood. Some modern personal glucose meters, or PGMs, cost as little as $10.
Japanese artist, Akinobu, creates these amazingly detailed tiny worlds in wee bottles. Check out more of his work in his Etsy shop. [via Nicole on Babble]
Detroit has an impressive number of makers who are passionate about their community and dedicated to making a difference. Our second Maker Faire Detroit, taking place this weekend, July 30 and 31, at The Henry Ford in Dearborn will showcase many of them. One maker on a mission is Peg Upmeyer of Arts & Scraps. […]
Jennifer at Ambrosia Girl made these tiny Polaroid snapshot magnets! It’s interesting that a tiny Polaroid photo magnet is so much more appealing to me than just a tiny photo magnet (without that extra wide strip of white along the bottom). I guess it’s just the undeniable appeal of a recognizable object, miniaturized.
