Recycled Super Heroes
Fast Company featured this cool Treehugger post about a U.S. soldier who occupies his time by making recycled super heroes.
Year: 2011
Watch Make: Live! (Broadcasting Soon)
Make: Live airs in just a few minutes! Don’t miss our science fair projects episode with guest Sean Ragan, contributing MAKE writer and blog MVP. He’ll be showing us his laser projection microscope project. We’ll also be trying out an awesome flammable chemistry demonstration from the Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments. Make: Live 03 […]
Crochet Oprah And Sue Sylvester Dolls From Crafty is Cool
Allison Hoffman of Crafty is Cool is amazing at capturing pop culture icons in crochet. Her Pee Wee Herman and Conan dolls have been highly praised, and her Conan blimp was even featured with Conan himself on his web site and television show. Her latest creations are Sue Sylvester and Oprah Winfrey. You can pick […]
Top 5 Apps for Design Lovers
Kate of Design Sponge finds the top 5 apps for design lovers. I’m definitely intrigued by Moodboard. It looks like a great way to gather and organize your inspiration and share it with your friends or coworkers. I recently reviewed the DesignScene app which is one of my absolute favorites. What are your favorites? Let […]
Build Your Own Backyard Rocketship
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with control panels. I dreamed of making a spaceship capsule out of my room, covered with toggles and panel lights that I could used to launch countless astronaut and sci-fi fantasies. The closest I ever came to this was a six-pad rocketry launch controller my friends (and […]
How-To: Detect the Earth’s Rotation with a PlayStation Move!
Gorgeously geeky and detailed how-to on homodyne measurement of the Earth’s rotation using an old turntable (remember those?) and a PS Move motion sensor: In this project we follow in the footsteps of Léon Foucault who in 1851 produced the first convincing experimental evidence of Earth’s diurnal rotation, thus confirming a crucial element of the […]
Crafty Events
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
