Creature Comforts provides a nice and easy tutorial for hand painted tea towels. This is a fabulous DIY because it’s so practical for your own home, and gives you endless custom-made gift ideas for friends, family, and hostesses at parties.
For the soon-to-be knitters and crocheters in your life, try dyeing your own yarn with them.
The jam is a 3-day workshop to improve OSHW documentation practices: The power of open source hardware lies in the ability to build upon others’ work and good documentation is the key to making this happen. We believe that documentation best practices can increase contributions to open source hardware projects significantly. For this reason, we […]
Entrepreneur and social media maven Nora Abousteit is in the business of facilitating and celebrating the exchange of knowledge through interactive media. She thrives on blending old and new, having gotten her start at German power publisher Hubert Burda Media, where she reinvented a sewing magazine started in the 1940s into BurdaStyle, the largest DIY […]
Make your own modern kitty-approved furniture with this cat condo tutorial!
California Congresswoman Jackie Speier is organizing a showcase of U.S.-made products June 15-16 during the San Mateo County Fair. The “Make it in America” exhibit will host 15-20 U.S. companies with homegrown production, specifically the Bay Area. The range of products is wide–surgical robots, jelly beans, wine, and electric cars. And there are a few slots left. The exhibit aims to be educational and is free to participating companies, but direct sales are not allowed in the exhibit area. The purpose of the exhibit is to show that U.S. manufacturing yields several benefits including increased employment and technological innovation.
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Hong Kong builder Chiu-Kueng Tsang built this recreation of an Apple ][+, even detailing the internals! I think that daughter card over there gives it upper and lower case! Also see his Brickshelf page.
