How-To: Minifig Scale OLED Display
Very cool idea from Dan over at adafruit: Use an OLED display module to create working scale train schedules, plane schedules, TVs, or other scale flat-panel displays for your Lego models
Month: June 2012
Printable Cookbook Markers
Plan your weekly meals the quick and easy way with these free printable cookbook markers from Helena at Craft and Creativity! More: Buffet Food Tags @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Make Vegan Serving Dish and Utensil Tags @Craftzine.com blog
Circuit Bent Coleco Talking Teacher
Here’s my take on bending the Coleco Talking Teacher toy. Four bends have been added: short glitch loop, long glitch loop, unsteady long glitch loop, and pitch adjustment. A side cart was added to make room for the controls. This is one of the most stable talking toys I have bent. The long and short […]
Bjork’s “Homogenic” in Tunisian Crochet
We have a massive 4’X3′ poster of the cover of Bjork’s Homogenic album hanging in my husband’s home office. It’s a souvenir from one of the best live music events I’ve ever experienced in my life: a Bjork concert in a gorgeous old theater in Florence, Italy back in 1997. My kids are actually a […]
Fabulous Retro Library Posters
The design of this collection of 1960s library posters is positively delightful. Flickr user, Enokson, found them “while digging through old library stuff.” It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I’m partial to the space-themed ones. [via @whatkatiedoes] More: How-To: Retro Sci-Fi Poster @Craftzine.com blog
Crayolascope: an Analog Depth Display
With a desire to find out how a deep display would look, video artist Blair Neal created the Crayolascope, a fantastic 3D depth display out of a dozen hacked Crayola Glow Books.
Vim Clutch
In an effort to shave off precious microseconds from the tedium of having to manually switch modes in his favorite multi-modal text editor, Aleksandr Levchuk fashioned a USB clutch pedal to do the job. Now, instead of typing an “i” to insert text or hitting to edit it, Aleksandr need only tap the pedal to enter the corresponding mode.
