Hand embroidery on paper is one of my favorite projects, but sometimes the stitching comes out looking a bit too wonky, even for a hand-crafted project. New House Project shares a brilliant trick for making perfect hand stitches on cardstock.
Matthew Davidson’s brother built him an enclosure for his modular synthesizer. It looks very slick! ‘ve been slowly building my modular over the last 10 years or so. It started with a 6U Doepfer Basic System I bought used from Germany, with the details of the transaction hashed out via bablefish. Back then, the euro […]
Instructables user, Kaisei13, made this embraceable Alien Facehugger Pillow Pet for her daughter. My daughter is obsessed with the AvP game. She has beat it at least 20 times and loves to run around the house hissing and trying to run up walls like a Xenomorph. So for her 8th birthday I made her a […]
Perhaps the best part of my work is hearing from people who have taken one of my projects and run with it. Elizabeth saw my recent PVC-dyeing hack and applied some real craftspersonship to the process, using the dye in two new ways that never would’ve occurred to me. The top cord has been tie-dyed and the bottom one resist-dyed.
Last fall, I fell in love with and purchased a new bicycle. One of my favorite accessories for my bike is my basket, and the only way it could be cooler is if it was completely knitted. Lucky you, there is a pattern from Knitting Today over on Craftster to do just that!
Nick Carter and his son Henry were browsing Goodwill when Henry spotted a Staples Easy Button for sale and wanted to try using it to make an Awesome Button, our DIY USB synonym generator project. Neither of them had much experience with electronics projects, and despite some difficulty with the soldering iron, they managed to […]
Using the Catra cataract self-diagnosis smartphone accessory developed by MIT Media Lab Camera Culture group, director Ramesh Raskar and his group hope their device can quickly detect early-stage cataracts in developing countries. The device works by mapping the progress of the disease using a user administered series of tests. [via crave]
