Year: 2012

Hand-Stitched Felt TARDIS

I love the tiny details on this hand-stitched TARDIS from Slair’s Lair. She shares pictures of the project in progress over on her blog. Each tiny little panel was whipstitched on, and she made a cardboard insert so it would keep its shape. Related: TARDIS iPhone Case Cross-Stitch Pattern TARDIS Cat Fort Lego TARDIS TARDIS […]

Digilent Design Contest

Digilent Design Contest

Digilent is proud to announce the 8th annual US regional Digilent Design Contest, to be held on May 6-7, 2012 in conjunction with the IEEE EIT conference in Indianapolis. Digilent Design Contests are engineering contests open to all students enrolled in any educational institution in that region. Dates Jan 25, 2012 – Registration begins Feb […]

Pedal Powered Machines by Maya Pedal

Pedal Powered Machines by Maya Pedal

Worldwide Cycling Atlas produced this excellent video about Maya Pedal Asociación, a Guatemalan organization which has been repurposing bicycles into machines since 1997. Created because of the expense and scarcity of electricity in the municipality of San Andrés Itzapa, their Bicimáquinas are pedal-powered pumps, blenders, threshing machines, and washing machines. They’re doing great work and […]

Crocheted Bandit Cat

My dear friend, Fonda Yoshimoto, crocheted this adorable cat. It is her very first crocheted animal! I’m calling him Bandit Cat, because as you can see, he has a little mask around his button eyes. She got the pattern from The Green Dragonfly. (The ceramic vase he’s sitting on is one of Fonda’s creations, as […]