Futurama fans, look no further. Your Halloween costume has arrived. Instructables user, kathara, shares her pattern for knitting a balaclava and mittens, Dr. Zoidberg-style. Honestly, these pieces are so practical, they would be great every-day items during winter, not just at Halloween. More: Knitted Bender Balaclava Brain Slug Headband Futurama’s Bender in Crochet
I’m smitten with this tutorial for fisherboy shorts; it’s an easy way to turn a regular shorts pattern into charming bloomers! This is geared at kids, but I might just make a pair for myself.
SpaceCamps have been happening at Maker Faire Bay Area, Detroit, and New York. The point of SpaceCamp is to propagate the robustness and awareness of hacker- and makerspaces. Attending spaces are curated into a shared area so that space facilitators get to know each other and Faire attendees are exposed to the wide variety of spaces’ interests, personalities, and geographies.
Did you ever want to upgrade your bread-boarded circuits to something more permanent? Or maybe you’ve got a hankering to make your own metal Jelwery? Today Sylvia will show you how you can do both with super simple copper etching. More info: http://wp.me/p1CIX9-tbq
Halloween is on its way crafters! I fracken love this time of year. For this episode of Corinne’s Craft Closet, I share with you my favorite DIY Halloween resources.
To date, most of our Weekend Projects, by design, have been battery-powered, save our inaugural project, the USB Webcam Microscope, which uses a USB cable (5V) as its power supply. In our Floating Glow Display project, the battery clip even provided a sculptural element, doubling as the base for our display. Our latest project still uses batteries, only now, you’ll never need to swap them out for fresh power! The Solar TV Remote project will teach you first and foremost how to fabricate a solar power pack capable of supplying two rechargeable AA batteries with 3V of renewable energy goodness!
For those of you wrapping up Rosh Hashanah celebrations today, take a look at this Taste of the Test Kitchen roundup of ways to incorporate honey into some holiday dishes.
