Year: 2011

How-To: Flying Bats T-Shirt

Freezer paper stenciling is one of the easiest, most inexpensive projects that really packs a punch in the satisfaction department. It’s a great “gateway craft” for folks who don’t think they have a crafty bone in them, and it’s highly addictive. This tutorial and template from Christie of A Lemon Squeezy Home is a great […]

Tool Review: DOMA Pro PCI Open Computer Case

Tool Review: DOMA Pro PCI Open Computer Case

I’m a minimalist by nature, which is what attracted me to this “no-case” from My Open PC in the first place. I have often toyed with the idea of designing something similar, myself – just a couple of panels with the bare-minimum cutouts to meet the ATX specification. While, over the long run, I think there are good reasons to keep a PC’s guts inside a hard case, in the short term, an open fixture like this has a lot to recommend it, for instance as a test fixture for experimenting with different hardware configurations.

Project Byzantium Aims to Avoid Internet Outages

Project Byzantium Aims to Avoid Internet Outages

At Washington, DC’s hackerspace, HacDC, a team led by the enigmatic “Doctor” seeks to develop a simple system for quickly deploying an ad-hoc internet in the event of internet outages. With all of the recent disasters (both natural and human) which have severed access to the net when it is most needed, groups all over the world have been developing solutions which allow alternate internets to be brought up quickly and effectively.

Spooky Skeleton Vase Tutorial

Dollar Store Crafts offers us this spooky skeleton vase tutorial from Katie of Sew Woodsy. I love that almost everything comes from the Halloween section of your local dollar store. It’s got just the right amount of spooky and glitz for me! Speaking of Dollar Store Crafts, congrats to Heather Mann for her cameo on […]