Vancouver-based makers eatART have been working away at their most recent creation, Titanoboa, a 50 ft mechanical snake. They displayed the work-in-progress at this year’s Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, and it’s come a long way.
I had a sense, as early as Tuesday, that it was going to be a yellow kind of week, and sure enough, the MAKE Flickr pool has proved it out. And though yellow has lots of negative connotations, it happens to be my favorite color, probably because it reminds of me construction equipment and power tools. Oh, and flowers. I have credible reports from people who have actually seen nature that flowers are sometimes yellow, too.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Smile, by itchinstitchin Needle Felted Morton the Monkey with Banana, by *brynne Dress-Up Octopus, by hine Steampunked Nerf Gun, by Cation Designs yellow submarine, by * Rezinha *
This project from Craftaholics Anonymous brings nature indoors during this time of year, making your house festive without the overuse of the traditional greens and reds. These framed pinecones are an alteration of another framed pinecone project posted several years ago. Give it a try. And you can keep it up year round, just change […]
Shisha stitching and temari are two crafts I find beautiful and exotic and just a tiny bit daunting. Thanks to some very thorough and well done tutorials from Pam at Gingerbread Snowflakes, though, I’m thinking now more than ever is the holiday season to try my hand at these skills. That she’s combined them in […]
A group of students competing in PennApps Data Hackathon created a microwave which plays a popular YouTube video that is the length of the time youโve entered for your food to heat up. They call it the ฮผWave and their hack won them first prize in the competition. Not only does the microwave entertain you while your left over chicken fried rice is reheating, but it also texts you when your food is done and tweets about when you use it. They used an Arduino to read the amount of time on the microwaveโs 7-segment display and to communicate that information to a web server with Ruby on Rails.
I adore the simple elegance of this hand-drawn gift wrap from Mini Eco. Using a silver paint pen to draw on brown packing paper looks great, and it would be a fun way to personalize gifts for any occasion!
