This past weekend, my daughter and I went camping. We had unusually cold weather for Texas, and even with layered socks and fleece-lined boots, I had trouble ever getting my feet to really warm up. These diy wool insoles from Maya of Maya*Made would have been perfect for solving the cold-toes syndrome. See how she […]
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more drawbots. Georgia Tech student Aaron Fan sent in his great delta robot that can make line drawings and shade in cool patterns. Pythagoras is a drawing delta robot. The goals for this robot was high speed and high precision pen work. OpenCV is used to […]
Salley Mavor, the talented felt and embroidery artist from Wee Folk Studio, shared her method for making fantastic wrapped wire lettering on her blog. I love how the wrapped wire adds depth to an embroidered piece without taking away attention from the other stitches. It’s a great way to make writing stand out while ensuring […]
Our friend Meg over at CRAFT posted this fantastic video detailing how to make an upholstered headboard complete with ambient LED lighting effects. There’s a lot of great stuff to learn in this video, but my favorite tip was that an electric carving knife is the perfect tool for cutting through foam with ease. Who […]
Allison Hoffman of Crafty is Cool continues to amaze me with her amigurumi awesomeness. Her latest crochet creation is none other than our favorite crafty singer from the Midwest: Leslie Hall. Allison even made a rad tiny gem sweater for the doll. Perfection! Related: Crochet Oprah And Sue Sylvester Dolls From Crafty is Cool Bob […]
Radio hacker extraordinaire Greg Charvat is back with this 15-minute video lecture showing off and explaining the measurement of moving objects’ velocities using the low-cost coffee can radar system he and co-workers at MIT developed, in the fall of 2010, for their open courseware initiative. The video begins with a chalk talk describing the operation […]
Waiting out an unfortunately lengthy shipment, Stockholm area maker Johan von Konow decided to build for his son a working set of augmented reality game pieces for the Cars 2 AppMATes game on his iPad. To achieve a faithful representation of the characters in the game, Johan modified a couple of PEZ dispenser tops approximately […]
