Don’t have time to hand-stitch a blind hem, but love the look? Head over to The Coletterie where Sarai will teach you how to sew a blind hem using your sewing machine and blind hem foot! Blind hems are fantastic. Using an ingenious method of folding and stitching, you can create a machine stitched hem […]
The Arduino Leonardo is now available in the Maker Shed! It features all the capabilities of the Arduino Uno plus additional funcationality that will open up a whole new range of projects!
The elements of the week are tungsten and thorium, which are alloyed to make the filament in the special type of vacuum tube—called a magnetron—that produces radiation in your microwave oven. Bill and the Engineer Guy team first explain the anatomy of a basic microwave oven, then…
Insanely modded power wheels! Nerf fights! Magic smoke! Just another regular day of racing Power Wheels. The first round of the Power Racing Series, a $500 electric racing competition, took place this past weekend at Maker Faire KC. Teams earn points through speed, creativity and crowd pleasing. The next round in the Championship will be […]
Once your fancy grilled corn on the cob is gone and you’re relaxing in post-barbeque bliss, you’ll want a little dessert to top off the meal, right? I think these cherry wheat beer popsicles from Samantha at Sweet Remedy will hit the spot nicely! [Via Not Martha] More: How-To: Rainbow Popsicles @Craftzine.com blog Recipe: Chocolate […]
Kacie Kim created a lovely cross-stitched embroidery of Tom Moody’s famous “OptiDiscs” GIF. I love the contrast of slow and crafty vs. quick and techy in these works.
TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak emotional content gathered from the web via synthetic speech with animated mouths. The speaking of the emotional content is accompanied by one of twenty-four musical vignettes that have been paired to the emotional content being spoken. Each vignette, […]
