Want to get started with e-textiles? The new Lilypad Beginner’s Kit, available in the Maker Shed, includes everything you need – right down to needles and thread. Your e-textile creations will be able to sense and react to light and temperature with LEDs, buzzers, and vibrating motors.
Check out this amazing crochet rocket (based on the one from The Adventures of Tintin) from Lutter Idyl. Her blog is in Danish, but if you plug it in to Google Translate, you can follow her process for creating the specially-shaped rocket legs. It’s a stunning piece of crochet work! [via Pinterest] Related: Crochet Mercury […]
This idea fascinates me — an open-source, DIY multimeter. This video, from the EEVblog, serves as more of a brainstorming session on what it would be like to rebuild a tool from the ground up with the features you want. [via Dangerous Prototypes]
I love when I see a traditional project re-made in an extraordinary way, and that’s just what an Instructables Pro, called mezcraft, did with her Edible Gingerbread Cuckoo Clock with Internal Gears! Last year for Christmas I made a Harry Potter Gingerbread House, which was a lot of fun. Over the past year I have […]
Roland DG is a subsidiary of the famous Japanese firm that makes sythesizers, drum machines, and other electronic musical instruments. Since 1983, the DG (“Digital Group”) brand has manufactured business-class plotters, engravers, mills, and other CNC tools. The iModela iM-01 is their first hobby-class product.
A traditional button down shirt gets a blingy update in this guest tutorial from Honestly … WTF? over on The Crafts Department. It’s such a quick refashion, that you could easily pull it off for an outing this weekend.
If you’ve ever used a tablet in the kitchen, you know there’s a uniquely optimum viewing angle that’s just right for you. And you’re likely going to want to get it out of the cooking area, yet still keep it viewable, right? You’re set if you have one of those cookbook stands to prop it up against, but if you don’t, you might want to check out the Steelie Mobile Device Holder from makers Frank Vogel and Paul Turner.
