How-To: Triangle Log Cabin Pin Cushion
Here’s a great new take on a sewing studio classic. Jeni from In Color Order created this tutorial for Riley Blake Designs – check out the how-to so you can make it yourself.
Month: March 2012
Pi-in-a-Jar Wedding Favors
In celebration of wedding month AND pi day (NERDS UNITE) I share with you this really rad, tasty, and unique idea….pie-in-a-jar wedding favors! I saw this genius idea on Green Wedding Shoes and want to tie the knot all over again using these as our dessert or favor. How very sweet and delcious!
Protobooth, An Animated GIF Photo Booth
Design firm Digital Kitchen threw a party with a photo booth. And the set props were super fun, with pointy mountaintops, fluffy clouds, and a jagged bolt of lightning. But this was no regular photo booth… they rigged up an animated GIF photo booth. They call it Protobooth! On their site they reveal the components […]
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Solar Panels Made With Ion Cannons
“Twin Creeks, a solar power startup that emerged from hiding today, has developed a way of creating photovoltaic cells that are half the price of today’s cheapest cells, and thus within reach of challenging the fossil fuel hegemony. The best bit: Twin Creeks’ photovoltaic cells are created using a hydrogen ion particle accelerator.”
Happy Tau Day
Vi Hart pushes back on Pi and whole Pi Day thingy.
Making Things See Video Intro
Here’s a video introduction to Making Things See, Greg Borenstein’s new Make: Books title about 3D vision projects you can build using Kinect, Arduino, Processing, and other readily available technologies. This detailed, hands-on guide provides the technical and conceptual information you need to build cool applications with Microsoft’s Kinect, the amazing motion-sensing device that enables […]
Open MAKE This Weekend: Needle Felting With Moxie, Henna With Darcy Vasudev
This weekend’s Open MAKE at the Exploratorium offers a day full of fun hands on activities and inspirational talks from makers of all sorts. Our good pal and needle felting guru, Moxie, will be hosting drop-in needle felting demos in the Tinkering Studio Thursday and Friday ahead of the main Open MAKE event on Saturday. […]
