How-To: Photographic Quilt
Learn to turn a photo into a great quilt of your own design, from image manipulation to fabric selection, with this tutorial by Incrxtc on Instructables.
Year: 2011
How-To: Pantone Chip Magnets
Jessica from How About Orange shares yet another way to work Pantone goodness into your everyday decor. See how she made these cute Pantone chip magnets over on her blog. More: Pantone Chip Cookies Pantone Coffee Mug Rubik + Pantone = Rubitone
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Smart Cover for Original iPad
Dan Provost over at Studio Neat managed to brute force one of those fancy new Smart Covers onto his first generation iPad by gluing four rare earth magnets to the spine of the iPad. It doesn’t turn the iPad screen on or off and you’ll have four magnets glued to your iPad when you’re not using it, but it does perform as a cover and stand.
Serious Simulation
Sean’s posting of this week’s Flickr pool roundup, with the Homemade F-16 Simulator Cockpit, had me tripping off to numerous sites where people take their flight simulators very seriously. Check out this site, Viperpit.org, for some very tweaked out recreational flight simulators. Viperpit.org
Strobe-animated LED Phenakistoscope
In response to last week’s Codebox column on building 3D zoetropes, Lorelei Pepi posted a link to this most awesome strobe-animated phenakistoscope she built. Thanks, Lorelei! LED Strobe Animation Device More: Build a Phenakistoscope (Make: Projects) From MAKE magazine: Want to know how to build an auto-phenakistoscope? How about a laser light show in a […]
Hostess Cupcake Cake Balls
I got tipped off to Sugar Derby from a pal of mine and have been reading all of the archives since, including this post on how to make your own Hostess Cupcake Cake Balls.