Without a doubt, the little green aliens are one of my favorite things about the Toy Story movie series. Who can see them without starting to chant, “The Claaaaaaw!” The little green guys are perfect subjects to be rendered in amigurumi, and Sharon of Homemade Obsessions has done just that. She shares a free pattern […]
ShapeLock is an amazingly useful polycaprolactone plastic that starts to melt and become moldable at 160ºF. When it cools to room temperature it becomes rigid and tough with qualities similar to nylon. By heating it in water with a microwave or using a heat gun, you can easily hand form it into almost anything.
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
Here, automata guru Dug North rounds up four expedient methods for improvising a worm drive given an on-hand spur gear. Digging through our archives also reveals this interesting method for coming at the problem from the other direction, i.e. improvising a spur gear for an on-hand worm!
MIT students Andrew Carlson, Leah Alpert and Russell Cohen built this Tetris game that uses pads from dancing game Dance Dance Revolution to control the shapes. Each board is a 200-LED matrix. Tetris installation controlled by DDR Mats. Color Kinetic LEDs in laser cut acrylic tubes set in chip-board matrix. If one player clears two […]
Intarsia may seem complicated, but it’s simple. It’s easy to pop an intarsia design into [your project] with just a little bit of planning and a chart. This method is particularly useful when you have large areas of color to incorporate into your knitting.
The cycling madmen of Whiskeydrunk Cycles, part of Fun Bike Unicorn Club, set up their Whiskey Drome at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. In the vide above, Joshua Thwaites and Joey Caster tell us about the inspiration for this barrel-shaped arena while cycling daredevils perform dangerously fun stunts along the perimeter of the drome.
