Year: 2012

How To: Staircase Makeover

When Suzanne and her husband Jay moved into their split-level house, they immediately removed the cat-hair-infested carpet on their stairs – only to find grungy steps full of holes and dings. So as a New Year treat they gathered up some vinyl numbers, paint, and paintable wallpaper, and transformed their steps into a pop-modern staircase. […]

Embroidered Doily

This gorgeous embroidered doily from Smallest Forest sits right at the intersection of two of my absolute favorite things: needlework and crochet. The intricate stitches make a beautiful substitution for the usual loops of crochet thread, and I can’t wait to see the finished project! [Via Feeling Stitchy]

How-To: Keyboard Breakout Board

How-To: Keyboard Breakout Board

If you’re building a standalone project with an embedded PC (say, a CNC rig or a MAME cabinet) one of the easiest ways to get instructions to the software is using the PC’s baked-in keyboard interface. But if you don’t want to actually use a keyboard to control the thing, you need some way to convert button presses and/or joystick movements from your custom control panel into signals that look like keyboard input.