Andrew Salomone uses a hacked knitting machine from the 80s to “print” digital images into knitted garments. At World Maker Faire New York 2011, Andrew demonstrates the knitting machine and shows off its creations including a sweater with Bill Cosby’s face.
Here’s something I thought I’d share here on the blog for National Sewing Month. I’m hitting the road today to spend the weekend with my grandfather for his 90th birthday and I wanted to make a treat bag for all of our family members. I’d seen Martha Stewart’s tutorial for an oilcloth lunch bag both […]
Mark Edelman from NorCalFTC shows the competition area for a yearly teen program in robotics. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, student teams used their engineering and technology skills to pit their creations against one another in the final tech challenge.
Kate from minieco made this spooky, cute Pacman garland as part of her kid-friendly Halloween decorating. If you want to make your own, you can download a PDF of the template on her site!
A Seattle organization called Xbot Robotics held a workshop where students built robots using MicroRAX girders and NXT microcontroller bricks. I love the top photo above with the mecanum wheels; all three were built by the students. The introductory lesson for how to build a four-wheel chassis included the purpose and structure of a chassis, […]
For Emily Roose’s Masters in Graphic Design thesis project, she created a series of cross-stitch samplers based on big news stories. I juxtaposed content that is extremely fast and ephemeral (breaking news stories) with a very slow and archival medium (cross stitch). I wanted to see how this transference of medium affects the message of […]
Amelia Harnas made these enigmatic portraits using a combination of embroidery and wine stains. These portraits are created either by using a wax resist (much like batiks) and repeated wine stains with embroidery as a reinforcing drawing over the original design or wine on paper with machine sewing. [via colossal]
