Lorena and David of San Francisco decked out their baby Lino’s nursery ceiling with embroidery hoops filled with all different fabrics, hanging from the ceiling. They sprinkled in some extra special hoops with glow-in-the-dark “friendly ghost” night protectors that David silk-screened himself. I love this idea, because a baby is often laying on his back […]
The OpenROV team journeyed to Hall City Cave just outside of Wildwood, CA to test out their underwater rover and to gain some more information about the cave itself. Here is their preliminary robot on how the robot performed.
I’m in the mood to stitch on unusual things today, so this embroidered wooden pendant necklace from Brittni at papernstitch caught my eye immediately. Head over to her site to find out where to pick up your own stitchable pendent and see the complete how-to. More: TARDIS iPhone Case Cross-Stitch Pattern @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Embroidered […]
On this week’s Make: Talk podcast, Mark talks with inveterate tinkerer and “broad-spectrum hobbyist” Steve Lodefink about his sunburst guitar project from MAKE Volume 29, his atomic ball clock, bottle rockets and other projects.
MIT Media Labbers Amit Zoran and Joe Paradiso have created a handheld, digitally-controlled milling device that attempts to combine the benefits of CAD and freehand fabrication.
I was lucky enough to be asked to speak at the Michigan Girl Geek Dinner in East Lansing last night (more on that to come!). I had a great time and saw some wonderful projects guests were working on, including this Pac-Man cuff crated by bead and fiberart artist Jenny Schu. Jenny has been beading […]
In today’s project on diyphysics.com, David Prutchi shows how to build a Cockcroft–Walton multiplier using a “ladder” of capacitors and diodes on perfboard, submerged in mineral oil, inside a sealed plastic container. The multiplier takes high voltage AC, e.g. from a TV flyback transformer, and both rectifies it to DC and steps it up considerably. […]
