Ribbed Sweater Vest Pattern
Whitney of The Purl Bee has posted a beautiful ribbed sweater vest knitting pattern. I love the versatile shape that feels more like a modern wrap.
Year: 2011
Circuitry, Anatomy, and Repair Tips for Common CFL Lamps
I don’t know about you, but I’m so used to the paradigm established by old-style incandescent bulbs that when one of my CFL’s “blows out,” it doesn’t even occur to me that I might be able to repair it in the garage. Or at least, it didn’t until I saw this page from Pavel Ruzicka, which does a good job of explaining the general principles of operation of CFL lamps and gives great details about their most common failure modes. Apparently, replacing a single capacitor will often do the trick. [via Hack a Day]
Make Real Time Autostereograms Using a Kinect
Here’s a neat way to visualize 3d data from your Kinect: turn it into a live autostereogram! Kyle McDonald and Golan Levin put together this ofxAutostereogram project using Open Frameworks. Source code to the project is available at the link.
CRAFT Pattern: Sally Cardigan
Inspired by an Atomic-age children’s sweater and named after Mad Men’s Sally Draper, this playful fitted cardigan with retro styling is surprisingly simple to knit. The three-quarter length sleeves make it a perfect transition sweater for crisp spring or fall days, the angora-blend yarn softens the pattern and adds to the nostalgic feel, and the crocheted buttonholes add to the overall charm.
Codebox: Create Image Filters with Matrix Multiplication
This Codebox shows you how to create your own color filters using matrix multiplication.
Augmented Reality Gear Simulates Weather
Magic Vision Lab‘s weather simulator is great, but I think it needs an air conditioner slash personal sprinkler to make it more realistic. We examined a range of weather phenomenon and how they may be simulated in a mobile augmented reality system. ARWeather was developed and deployed on the Tinmith wearable computer system to enable […]
Knit TARDIS Blanket
Carrie Fritsche knit this awesome 9-foot by 6-foot TARDIS blanket as a birthday gift for her sister. After unsuccessfully looking for a TARDIS chart on the internet, I ended up making the pattern from scratch. It was knit in one large piece and has an attached fleece backing. You can find the free PDF pattern […]