Billy Quesse wrote in with this glorious display of Christmas lights, using WS2801 RGB LEDs from Adafruit, an Arduino, and a Flash interface on the computer to handle the animation and music. Bet his coworkers LOVE it!
A Flickr user called shoshanaf created this beautiful bowl of custom ordered knitted grenades which are each, “slightly larger than a chicken egg.” [via knithacker]
Here’s a lovely little ornament you can make that would be a great hostess gift for holiday parties over the next two weeks. Melissa of Checkout Girl shares her tutorial for this sweet little embroidery hoop and felt ornament over on her blog.
Here’s a glimpse from last week’s Make: Tokyo Meeting #07 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Held over the December 3rd weekend, this Tokyo Maker Faire featured 260 makers, and hosted 12,800 visitors over the two days.
It is difficult to write a gift guide for all guys without overgeneralizing them. So allow me to get specific. This is a gift guide for a certain kind of man. He’s sweet and he’s smart and he loves you. Lish introduced me to him last week. Consider this the guide to perfect gifts for […]
This year, all of my friends are talking about cookie swap parties, and it seems like flawless decorating is getting almost as much attention as taste. If you need a little help making your holiday cookies picture-perfect, here’s a cute tutorial for decorating Rudolph reindeer cookies from Cindy and Skip to My Lou. Who could […]
OK, so maybe it was more of a mod than a hack, but the end results were the same. My iNecklace was now pulsating a beautiful purple instead of the stock white. Iโm not so sure purple would have been my first choice, but itโs my wifeโs favorite color and she loves it.
