How-To: Roasted Asparagus With Prosciutto
Roasted asparagus, wrapped in prosciutto with bubbly cheese on top? Yes, please. Get the simple recipe over on Small Notebook.
Year: 2011
Paracord And Pallet Wood Hanging Chair
Simple, cheap, and attractive. Looks comfy, too. Nice work by Instructables user Twotim221.
High-Quality Open Source Body Tracking Sans Kinect
Draw a bounding box around an object in the camera’s field of view and Zdenek Kalal’s open source Predator algorithm will continuously track it in real-time with just a standard webcam. That’s right, get Kinect-like body tracking without the fancy hardware. With all those front-facing cameras out there, just think of the mobile applications! Minority Report-style HCI, face tracking, improved visual search, and video stabilization are a few examples.
Maker Faire Bay Area: The Paper Airplane Guy Interview
Every year, you never know what wonders to expect at the Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place on May 21 and 22 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. But there are a handful of makers who have been there since the very first Faire in 2006. One of these makers is John Collins, The Paper Airplane […]
Dinosaur Inspiration
Do we really know what dinosaurs looked like? Maybe the T-Rex didn’t have stumpy little claw-arms. In this illustration, posted by apeox of Half Dracula Half Cinderella, there are some dinosaurs reimagined with beefier arms and big thumbs. I would enjoy seeing them embroidered on a pillow. Thumbs up. Correction: Please excuse my dinosaur ignorance! […]
Crocheted Viking Costume
My crafty Michigan pal Veronica Knight crocheted her very own viking costume, complete with epic beard, for Halloween last year and will be using it as her entry into this weekend’s Motor City Beard and Moustache Championships. Enjoy this achievement in crochet work with me, won’t you?
Oregon Manifest Bike Building Competition
Jamie Nichols and Phillip Ross, of Team Metrofiets, with one of their cargo bikes (not a utility bike for the competition) The Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge is a design and build competition where some of the best custom bike crafters in the US, along with student teams, vie to create the ultimate modern utility […]