Significant others, fear not! Even if you’re not quite as craft-sensitive as Handmade Ryan Gosling, Jenny from Craft Test Dummies has made it nice and easy for you. Check out her DIY craft valentines to find out what the crafter/beader/sewer in your life REALLY wants for Valentine’s Day. What would you put in yours? More: […]
Do you want to get into E-textiles but need somewhere to begin? This E-textiles Starter Kit is the perfect way to get everything you need to get started all at once! Get the book Fashioning Technology, an LED Sewing Kit, and the Lilypad Beginner’s Kit!
Making your own jewelry is a lot of fun, but sometimes the findings are … well … hard to find, or add up quickly. If you’re looking for an easy and inexpensive way to whip up a pair of earrings, check out this tutorial from Disney of Ruffles and Stuff that uses paper clips and […]
Salvius runs off Ubuntu, can operate autonomously, is about the height and weight of a human being, and is mostly made from recycled and salvaged parts. The name ‘Salvius’ dates back to the time of the ancient Romans, but it seem oddly fitting for this robot because so much of the robot has been salvaged […]
Guerilla gardener Steve Wheen combines a lack of road maintenance with a surplus of whimsy by making tiny themed gardens in potholes around East London. The pictures and gardens are supposed to put smiles on peoples faces and alert them to potholes! I don’t leave any of the props out after we shoot them, I […]
Very cool widget from British firm RTL Materials, who’ve figured out a trick for making composite tubes that are pre-stressed, like a tape measure, such that they want to roll up into a rigid round tube structure when unfurled from a flat, coiled state. Unlike a tape measure, however, these “bistable reeled composites” are also […]
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter and I went camping together. The weekend was unusually cold for Texas (sadly, it already feels like spring here) and we had to do some serious bundling up to stay warm. We’d brought along packs of handwarmers, and while they were handy – pun intended – I felt […]
