I don’t have kids, but if I did, I would totally make them wear these adorable ruffle pink satin bow bloomers. I would let his or her complaints fall on deaf ears. These would be mandatory till age 10. Natasha from Bonbonland makes adorable dresses too, but the ruffle butt is my fave.
DJ Sures Is a roboticist living in Calgary, Alberta. He is the designer of the EZ-B Robot Controller, which converts toys into interactive robots. In MAKE Volume 27, DJ wrote an introduction to the EZ-B Robot Controller and explained how to use it to make a Ball Chasing Digger Robot.
After all the controversy we witnessed last month over the idea of putting a vegetable garden in your front yard, I wonder how the surrounding neighborhood feels about this leopard print house, as featured on Apartment Therapy. Personally, I’m a big fan – it’s quirky crafting writ large. How about you?
This 3D flower wallpaper was created by Front, a Swedish (of course) design team. You could totally DIY this look by tacking down faux flowers in vertical stripes down your wall using simple cable tacks from your local hardware store. This could be a really cool effect. How would you spin it? Make it a […]
This project was inspired by “Cooking for Geeks” author Jeff Potter’s quick DIY sous-vide hack. My plan, initially, was to just hack the controller into an enclosure with an A/C outlet, the idea being that you could just plug any heater you wanted into the outlet. Looking around for cheap temperature controllers, however, I happened across the STC-1000 on eBay for $25. It’s not PID, but it has proven to be plenty accurate enough for almost any practical purpose. And since the STC-1000 has both heating and cooling functions built-in, the logical next step seemed to be to split a single A/C outlet so that you could plug a heater or a cooler (or both) into it and use it for all kinds of stuff.
Steampunk Softies: Scientifically-Minded Dolls from a Past that Never Was is a collection of eight delightfully quirky figures made with fun bits of hardware. As a special treat, Andrews McMeel is sharing one of these projects with us: Marveletta O’ Houlihan, pictured above. From the project intro: Marveletta, the Steampunk Lady, has plenty of natural […]
One of the first ways amateur type designers learn to create a font is by piecing together shapes in a vector design program like Adobe Illustrator. When the glyphs look the way you want, you can drop the vectors into a program like Fontlab that manages kerning, point sizes, and so on, then outputting an […]
